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For this episode, Arjen is joined by Jason and Matt to discuss the news from the first quarter of 2023. As that is a bit much, they decide to focus on the Melbourne region first and then pick some of their favourites round-robin style. This episode was recorded on 23 March 2023. You can find the user group here: Our website @awsmelb@awscommunity.social on Mastodon @awsmelb on Twitter AWS User Group (Melbourne) on LinkedIn Melbourne Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in six new regions AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new AWS regions AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now available in all regions AWS Step Functions Distributed Map is now available in more Regions Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad and Melbourne) Regions AWS License Manager Linux subscriptions expands region and administrator support Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region Meet the Newest AWS Heroes – March 2023 AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions AWS Cloud Map is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regions AWS CloudFormation language extensions transform is now available in 5 additional AWS Regions Sydney Amazon Connect Cases is now available in 5 additional regions Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in additional regions AWS App Runner is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney) and AWS Europe (Frankfurt) regions Discussed news items New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 Instances Application Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh now supports rollback Amazon Linux 2023, a Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Long-Term Support Introducing Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high performance open source file client Announcing Consolidated Control Findings and a Consolidated Controls View for AWS Security Hub New – Use Amazon S3 Object Lambda with Amazon CloudFront to Tailor Content for End Users Announcing cross-account support for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points AWS CloudShell now supports the modular variant of AWS Tools for PowerShell AWS Application Composer Now Generally Available – Visually Build Serverless Applications Quickly AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regions Announcing Favorites feature to organize AWS Systems Manager documents and runbooks Code scans for Lambda functions within Amazon Inspector now in preview AWS Step Functions adds integration for 35 services including EMR Serverless Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports 3 additional AWS networking services Amazon Corretto 20 is now generally available AWS now allows you to bring your Windows 11 licenses to Amazon WorkSpaces Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances now support in-place operating system updates AWS Chatbot now available in Microsoft Teams AWS Backup now supports VMware vSphere 8 and multiple virtual NICs Application Auto Scaling now supports resource tagging Programmatically manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on AWS accounts Amazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default AWS Clean Rooms Now Generally Available — Collaborate with Your Partners without Sharing Raw Data Sponsors CMD Solutions Silver Sponsors Cevo Versent

For this very special episode, Arjen is joined by Dawn, Jason, and Matt to discuss our newly launched local region. So, of course, we take that opportunity to whinge about missing services and features while also trying to show that we're actually really happy it's here. And at the end we'll take a brief excursion to the new Perth Local Zone as well. You can find the user group here: Our website @awsmelb@awscommunity.social on Mastodon @awsmelb on Twitter AWS User Group (Melbourne) on LinkedIn Links Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region in Australia Melbourne gets a Region, a big trip, and a brain mapping startup Perth Local Zone announcement   Sponsors CMD Solutions Silver Sponsors Cevo Versent

After a long hiatus, we're back with season 2 of our podcast! In this episode Arjen, Jason, and Matt discuss their favourite announcements of re:Invent 2022 and how much of this is quality of life improvements. Discussed Announcements Step Functions Distributed Map – A Serverless Solution for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing You can now assign multiple MFA devices in IAM | AWS Security Blog Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports network reachability analysis across accounts in an AWS Organization AWS Verified Access Preview — VPN-less Secure Network Access to Corporate Applications Preview: Amazon Security Lake – A Purpose-Built Customer-Owned Data Lake Service New – Fully Managed Blue/Green Deployments in Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS Introducing AWS Application Composer (Preview) Amazon CloudWatch launches cross-account observability across multiple AWS accounts AWS Network Manager introduces real-time performance monitoring for the AWS Global Network In the search for performance, there’s more than one way to build a network | AWS HPC Blog (info on SRD) New – ENA Express: Improved Network Latency and Per-Flow Performance on EC2 | AWS News Blog Announcing delegated administrator for AWS Organizations Amazon GuardDuty RDS Protection now in preview AWS announces Amazon Verified Permissions (Preview) Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst (preview), a Unified Software Development Service Announcing data protection in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, helping you detect, and protect sensitive data-in-transit New – AWS Config Rules Now Support Proactive Compliance New — Create Point-to-Point Integrations Between Event Producers and Consumers with Amazon EventBridge Pipes Bridging the Gap: Using EventBridge to tie your services together | AWS Perth User Group | Oct 2022 - YouTube (Arjen's talk on EventBridge in Perth) Automated Data Discovery for Amazon Macie Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor Preview – End-to-End Visibility into Internet Performance for your Applications Introducing VPC Lattice – Simplify Networking for Service-to-Service Communication (Preview) New – Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStart Sponsors CMD Solutions Silver Sponsors Cevo Versent

In this month's episode Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from January 2022. Well, everything announced after re:Invent really, but that's mostly from January. There are good announcements all over; from a new Console Home to unpronounceable instance types, but there is also some news around the podcast that's either good or bad depending on how you interpret it. Find us at melb.awsug.org.au or as @AWSMelb on Twitter. News Finally in Sydney Amazon EC2 R6i instances are now available in 8 additional regions Amazon EC2 C6i instances are now available in 10 additional regions AWS Panorama is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Resilience Hub expands to 13 additional AWS Regions AWS Direct Connect announces new location in Australia Serverless AWS Lambda now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) endpoints for inbound connections Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports Bring Your Own IPv6 Addresses (BYOIPv6) - Old announcement mentioned in show Announcing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI support for local testing of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) AWS Lambda now supports ES Modules and Top-Level Await for Node.js 14 AWS Lambda now supports Max Batching Window for Amazon MSK, Apache Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache Active MQ and RabbitMQ as event sources Containers Amazon EKS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Adds IPv6 Networking | AWS News Blog EBS CSI driver now available in EKS add-ons in preview Amazon ECS launches new simplified console experience for creating ECS clusters and task definitions ACM Private CA Kubernetes cert-manager plugin is production ready Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for customized container images for AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances Amazon ECR adds the ability to monitor repository pull statistics Amazon ECS now supports Amazon ECS Exec and Amazon Linux 2 for on-premises container workloads EC2 & VPC Introducing Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances New – Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instance Optimized for High Performance Computing | AWS News Blog New – Amazon EC2 X2iezn Instances Powered by the Fastest Intel Xeon Scalable CPU for Memory-Intensive Workloads Instance Tags now available on the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now support Cluster Placement Groups AWS Compute Optimizer makes it easier to optimize by leveraging multiple EC2 instance architectures AWS Announces New Launch Speed Optimizations for Microsoft Windows Server Instances on Amazon EC2 Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication with EC2 Instance Connect Metrics now available for AWS PrivateLink Dev & Ops Amazon Corretto January Quarterly Updates Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces AWS Organizations support for cross account Subscriptions AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs adds support for ECS-Exec for troubleshooting ECS containers AWS Systems Manager Automation now enables you to take action in third-party applications through webhooks Security AWS Secrets Manager now automatically enables SSL connections when rotating database secrets AWS announces phone number enrichments for Amazon Fraud Detector Models Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed audit and security lake AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS Shield Advanced automatic application layer DDoS mitigation Amazon SNS now supports Attribute-based access controls (ABAC) Amazon GuardDuty now detects EC2 instance credentials used from another AWS account Amazon GuardDuty Enhances Detection of EC2 Instance Credential Exfiltration | AWS News Blog Amazon GuardDuty now protects Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Health AWS Trusted Advisor now integrates with AWS Security Hub AWS Client VPN now supports banner text and maximum session duration Data Storage & Processing Databases AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations adds support for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL Now DynamoDB can return the throughput capacity consumed by PartiQL API calls to help you optimize your queries and throughput costs Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for $mergeObjects and $reduce Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds additional Geospatial query capabilities Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now offers a free trial Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports query execution plan capture for RDS for Oracle Glue Introducing Autoscaling in AWS Glue jobs (Preview) Introducing AWS Glue Interactive Sessions and Job Notebooks (Preview) Announcing Personal Identifiable Information (PII) detection and remediation in AWS Glue (Preview) EMR Introducing real-time collaborative notebooks with EMR Studio Introducing SQL Explorer in EMR Studio Amazon EMR now supports Apache Iceberg, a highly performant, concurrent, ACID-compliant table format for data lakes Amazon EMR on EKS adds error message details in DescribeJobRun API response to simplify debugging Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for customized container images for interactive jobs run using managed endpoints Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Glue Data Catalog tables when Lake Formation integration is enabled OpenSearch Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports OpenSearch version 1.1 Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports anomaly detection for historical data Fine grained access control now supported on existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains Redshift Announcing AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift Spectrum now offers custom data validation rules Other New – Replication for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Amazon ElastiCache adds support for streaming and storing Redis engine logs AWS Storage Gateway management console simplifies gateway creation and management Amazon S3 File Gateway adds schedule-based network bandwidth throttling Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides performance and capacity metrics in Amazon CloudWatch AI & ML SageMaker Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now offers native EMR integration for large scale data processing Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports concurrency control Amazon SageMaker JumpStart adds LightGBM and CatBoost Models for Tabular Data Amazon SageMaker Feature Store connector for Apache Spark for easy batch data ingestion Announcing SageMaker Training support for ml.g5 instances Other Amazon Kendra launches support for query language Amazon Forecast now supports AWS CloudFormation for managing dataset and dataset group resources Amazon Rekognition improves accuracy of Content Moderation for Video AWS Panorama Appliances now available for purchase on Amazon.com and Amazon Business Amazon Textract adds synchronous support for single page PDF documents and support for PDF documents containing JPEG 2000 encoded images Other Cool Stuff Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region | AWS News Blog Announcing the new Console Home in AWS Management Console A New AWS Console Home Experience | AWS News Blog Amazon Nimble Studio launches the ability to validate launch profile configurations via the Nimble Studio console AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports failback automation Amazon Interactive Video Service adds thumbnail configuration Announcing matrix routing for Amazon Location Service Amazon Location Service enables request-based pricing for all customer use cases IoT AWS IoT Device Management launches Automated Retry capability for Jobs to improve success rates of large scale deployments AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN Launches Two New Features to Manage and Monitor Communications Between Device and Cloud AWS IoT SiteWise Edge supports new data storage and upload prioritization strategies for intermittent cloud connectivity Sponsors CMD Solutions Silver Sponsors Cevo Versent

Pull your podcast player out of instant retrieval, because we're discussing re:Invent 2021 as well as the weeks before it. Lots of announcements; big, small, weird, awesome, and anything in between. We had fun with this episode and hope you do too. Find us at melb.awsug.org.au or as @AWSMelb on Twitter. News Finally in Sydney AWS Snowcone SSD is now available in the US East (Ohio), US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions Amazon EC2 M6i instances are now available in 5 additional regions Serverless Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless in preview Announcing Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand Announcing Amazon Redshift Serverless (Preview) Introducing Amazon MSK Serverless in public preview Introducing Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference (preview) Simplify CI/CD Configuration for AWS Serverless Applications and your favorite CI/CD system – General Availability Amazon AppStream 2.0 launches Elastic fleets, a serverless fleet type AWS Chatbot now supports management of AWS resources in Slack (Preview) Lambda AWS Lambda now supports partial batch response for SQS as an event source AWS Lambda now supports cross-account container image pulling from Amazon Elastic Container Registry AWS Lambda now supports mTLS Authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source AWS Lambda now logs Hyperplane Elastic Network Interface (ENI) ID in AWS CloudTrail data events Step Functions AWS Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows now supports AWS PrivateLink Amplify Introducing AWS Amplify Studio AWS Amplify announces the ability to override Amplify-generated resources using CDK AWS Amplify announces the ability to add custom AWS resources to Amplify-created backends using CDK and CloudFormation AWS Amplify UI launches new Authenticator component for React, Angular, and Vue AWS Amplify announces the ability to export Amplify backends as CDK stacks to integrate into CDK-based pipelines AWS Amplify expands its Notifications category to include in-app messaging (Developer Preview) AWS Amplify announces a redesigned, more extensible GraphQL Transformer for creating app backends quickly Containers Fargate Announcing AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors ECS Amazon ECS now adds container instance health information Amazon ECS has improved Capacity Providers to deliver faster Cluster Auto Scaling Amazon ECS-optimized AMI is now available as an open-source project Amazon ECS announces a new integration with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry EKS Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now Supports the Fluent Bit Kubernetes Filter Amazon EKS adds support for additional cluster configuration options using AWS CloudFormation Visualize all your Kubernetes clusters in one place with Amazon EKS Connector, now generally available AWS Karpenter v0.5 Now Generally Available AWS customers can now find, subscribe to, and deploy third-party applications that run in any Kubernetes environment from AWS Marketplace Other Amazon ECR announces pull through cache repositories AWS App Mesh now supports ARM64-based Envoy Images EC2 & VPC Instances New – EC2 Instances (G5) with NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs | AWS News Blog Announcing new Amazon EC2 G5g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors Introducing Amazon EC2 R6i instances Introducing two new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support hot attach and detach of EBS volumes Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS Monterey Announcing Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances for macOS Announcing preview of Amazon Linux 2022 Elastic Beanstalk supports AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instance types Announcing preview of Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances Announcing new Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors Announcing new Amazon EC2 Im4gn and Is4gen instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors Introducing the AWS Graviton Ready Program Introducing Amazon EC2 M6a instances AWS Compute Optimizer now offers enhanced infrastructure metrics, a new feature for EC2 recommendations AWS Compute Optimizer now offers resource efficiency metrics Networking AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now create IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer end-to-end IPv6 support AWS Transit Gateway introduces intra-region peering for simplified cloud operations and network connectivity Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces IP Address Manager (IPAM) to help simplify IP address management on AWS Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces Network Access Analyzer to help you easily identify unintended network access Introducing AWS Cloud WAN Preview Introducing AWS Direct Connect SiteLink Other Recover from accidental deletions of your snapshots using Recycle Bin Amazon EBS Snapshots introduces a new tier, Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive, to reduce the cost of long-term retention of EBS Snapshots by up to 75% Amazon CloudFront now supports configurable CORS, security, and custom HTTP response headers Amazon EC2 now supports access to Red Hat Knowledgebase Amazon EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet now support automatic instance termination with Capacity Rebalancing AWS announces a new capability to switch license types for Windows Server and SQL Server applications on Amazon EC2 AWS Batch introduces fair-share scheduling Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Now Supports Predictive Scaling with Custom Metrics Dev & Ops New services Measure and Improve Your Application Resilience with AWS Resilience Hub | AWS News Blog Scalable, Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery in the Cloud | AWS News Blog Announcing general availability of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery AWS announces the launch of AWS AppConfig Feature Flags in preview Announcing Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS, an ML-powered capability that automatically detects and diagnoses performance and operational issues within Amazon Aurora Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (Preview) Introducing Amazon CloudWatch RUM for monitoring applications’ client-side performance IaC AWS announces Construct Hub general availability AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 is now generally available You can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack set You can now submit multiple operations for simultaneous execution with AWS CloudFormation StackSets AWS CDK releases v1.126.0 - v1.130.0 with high-level APIs for AWS App Runner and hotswap support for Amazon ECS and AWS Step Functions SDKs AWS SDK for Swift (Developer Preview) AWS SDK for Kotlin (Developer Preview) AWS SDK for Rust (Developer Preview) CICD AWS Proton now supports Terraform Open Source for infrastructure provisioning AWS Proton introduces Git management of infrastructure as code templates AWS App2Container now supports Jenkins for setting up a CI/CD pipeline Other Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now detects hardcoded secrets in Java and Python repositories EC2 Image Builder enables sharing Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with AWS Organizations and Organization Units Amazon Corretto 17 Support Roadmap Announced Amazon DevOps Guru now Supports Multi-Account Insight Aggregation with AWS Organizations AWS Toolkits for Cloud9, JetBrains and VS Code now support interaction with over 200 new resource types AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Amazon CloudWatch Alarms and AWS Systems Manager Automation Runbooks. AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web applications hosted in an Amazon VPC Amazon CloudWatch now supports anomaly detection on metric math expressions Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Evidently for feature experimentation and safer launches New – Amazon CloudWatch Evidently – Experiments and Feature Management | AWS News Blog Introducing AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET Security AWS Secrets Manager increases secrets limit to 500K per account AWS CloudTrail announces ErrorRate Insights AWS announces the new Amazon Inspector for continual vulnerability management Amazon SQS Announces Server-Side Encryption with Amazon SQS-managed encryption keys (SSE-SQS) AWS WAF adds support for Captcha AWS Shield Advanced introduces automatic application-layer DDoS mitigation Security Hub AWS Security Hub adds support for AWS PrivateLink for private access to Security Hub APIs AWS Security Hub adds three new FSBP controls and three new partners SSO Manage Access Centrally for CyberArk Users with AWS Single Sign-On Manage Access Centrally for JumpCloud Users with AWS Single Sign-On AWS Single Sign-On now provides one-click login to Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows AWS Single Sign-On is now in scope for AWS SOC reporting Control Tower AWS Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for detective guardrails AWS Control Tower now supports nested organizational units AWS Control Tower now provides controls to meet data residency requirements Deny services and operations for AWS Regions of your choice with AWS Control Tower AWS Control Tower introduces Terraform account provisioning and customization Data Storage & Processing Databases Relational databases Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server New Multi-AZ deployment option for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and for MySQL; increased read capacity, lower and more consistent write transaction latency, and shorter failover time (Preview) Amazon RDS now supports cross account KMS keys for exporting RDS Snapshots Amazon Aurora supports MySQL 8.0 Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports backups on AWS Outposts Athena Amazon Athena adds cost details to query execution plans Amazon Athena announces cross-account federated query New and improved Amazon Athena console is now generally available Amazon Athena now supports new Lake Formation fine-grained security and reliable table features Announcing Amazon Athena ACID transactions, powered by Apache Iceberg (Preview) Redshift Announcing preview for write queries with Amazon Redshift Concurre

A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft. News Finally in Sydney Amazon EC2 Mac instances are now available in seven additional AWS Regions Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions Serverless Lambda AWS Lambda now supports triggering Lambda functions from an Amazon SQS queue in a different account AWS Lambda now supports IAM authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source Step Functions Now — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation | AWS News Blog AWS Batch adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows Amplify Announcing General Availability of Amplify Geo for AWS Amplify AWS Amplify for JavaScript now supports resumable file uploads for Storage Other Accelerating serverless development with AWS SAM Accelerate | AWS Compute Blog Containers Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups adds native support for Bottlerocket AWS Fargate now supports Amazon ECS Windows containers Announcing the general availability of cdk8s and support for Go | Containers Monitoring clock accuracy on AWS Fargate with Amazon ECS Amazon ECS Anywhere now supports GPU-based workloads AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.3 now available with support for ALB IPv6 targets AWS App Mesh Metric Extension is now generally available EC2 & VPC New – Amazon EC2 C6i Instances Powered by the Latest Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog Amazon EC2 now supports sharing Amazon Machine Images across AWS Organizations and Organizational Units Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Fleet a way to easily migrate Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations across instance types Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports describing Auto Scaling groups using tags Amazon EC2 now offers Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMIs AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Database Decoupling in an Elastic Beanstalk Environment AWS FPGA developer kit now supports Jumbo frames in virtual ethernet frameworks for Amazon EC2 F1 instances Amazon VPC Flow Logs now supports Apache Parquet, Hive-compatible prefixes and Hourly partitioned files Network Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3 New – Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection for EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet | AWS News Blog Amazon Lightsail now supports AWS CloudFormation for instances, disks and databases Dev & Ops CLI AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS & Third-Party Services | AWS News Blog Now programmatically manage alternate contacts on AWS accounts CodeGuru Amazon CodeGuru now includes recommendations powered by Infer Amazon CodeGuru announces Security detectors for Python applications and security analysis powered by Bandit Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds detectors for AWS Java SDK v2’s best practices and features IaC AWS CDK releases v1.121.0 - v1.125.0 with features for faster development cycles using hotswap deployments and rollback control AWS CloudFormation customers can now manage their applications in AWS Systems Manager Other NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data models Amazon Corretto October Quarterly Updates Bulk Editing of OpsItems in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Spot Interruptions AWS Fault Injection Simulator now injects Spot Instance Interruptions Security Firewalls AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS Network Firewall logs AWS Network Firewall Adds New Configuration Options for Rule Ordering and Default Drop Backups AWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance reports AWS Backup adds an additional layer for backup protection with the availability of AWS Backup Vault Lock Other AWS Security Hub adds support for cross-Region aggregation of findings to simplify how you evaluate and improve your AWS security posture Amazon SES now supports 2048-bit DKIM keys AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator for Managed entitlements Data Storage & Processing Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, Hello Babelfish | AWS News Blog Announcing availability of the Babelfish for PostgreSQL open source project Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle AWS announces AWS Snowcone SSD Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for MySQL Version 8.0 Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) announces support for Cross-Cluster Replication Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now comes with an improved management console AWS Transfer Family customers can now use Amazon S3 Access Point aliases for granular and simplified data access controls Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Apache Hive metadata tables when Apache Ranger integration is enabled Amazon Neptune now supports Auto Scaling for Read Replicas AWS Glue Crawlers support Amazon S3 event notifications Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings New – AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift | AWS News Blog AI & ML SageMaker Announcing Fast File Mode for Amazon SageMaker Amazon SageMaker Projects now supports Image Building CI/CD templates Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Amazon Athena Workgroups, feature correlation, and customer managed keys Other Amazon Kendra launches support for 34 additional languages Amazon Fraud Detector now supports event datasets AWS announces a price reduction of up to 56% for Amazon Fraud Detector machine learning fraud predictions Amazon Fraud Detector launches new ML model for online transaction fraud detection Amazon Transcribe now supports custom language models for streaming transcription Amazon Textract launches TIFF support and adds asynchronous support for receipts and invoices processing Announcing Amazon EC2 DL1 instances for cost efficient training of deep learning models Other Cool Stuff AWS IoT Core now makes it optional for customers to send the entire trust chain when provisioning devices using Just-in-Time Provisioning and Just-in-Time Registration AWS IoT SiteWise announces support for using the same asset models across different hierarchies VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Brings VMware SDDC as a Fully Managed Service on Premises | AWS News Blog AWS Outposts adds new CloudWatch dimension for capacity monitoring Amazon Monitron launches iOS app Amazon Braket offers D-Wave’s Advantage 4.1 system for quantum annealing Amazon QuickSight adds support for Pixel-Perfect dashboards Amazon WorkMail adds Mobile Device Access Override API and MDM integration capabilities Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces API to create new updated images with latest AWS drivers Computer Vision at the Edge with AWS Panorama | AWS News Blog Amazon Connect launches API to configure hours of operation programmatically New region availability and Graviton2 support now available for Amazon GameLift Sponsors CMD Solutions Silver Sponsors Cevo Versent

After a very long delay, our September 2021 episode finally drops. Recorded in early October Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss how September finally has a fair number of interesting announcements again and of course point out everything that wasn't great as well. As a headsup, our October and November episodes will be released over the next 2 weeks. News Finally in ANZ Amazon Textract announces reduced pricing of up to 32% on AnalyzeDocument and DetectDocumentText requests in eight global AWS Regions Ability to customize reverse DNS for Elastic IP addresses now available in additional regions for Virtual Private Cloud customers Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in 17 additional public regions In the Works – AWS Region in New Zealand | AWS News Blog Serverless AWS Lambda Functions Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processor – Run Your Functions on Arm and Get Up to 34% Better Price Performance | AWS News Blog Cross-account event discovery for Amazon EventBridge schema registry AWS Amplify announces command hooks to execute custom scripts when running Amplify CLI commands Containers Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Is Now Generally Available with Alert Manager and Ruler | AWS News Blog Amazon EKS Anywhere – Now Generally Available to Create and Manage Kubernetes Clusters on Premises | AWS News Blog Amazon EKS Connector is now in public preview AWS RoboMaker now supports container images in simulation Amazon ECR adds the ability to replicate individual repositories to other regions and accounts Amazon ECR Public adds the ability to launch containers directly to AWS App Runner EC2 & VPC Instances Amazon EC2 now offers Global View on the console to view all resources across regions together New – Amazon EC2 VT1 Instances for Live Multi-stream Video Transcoding | AWS News Blog Amazon EC2 T3 instances are now supported on EC2 Dedicated Hosts in multiple AWS Regions AWS Compute Optimizer Now Helps Customers Understand Impact of Migrating to Graviton2-based Instances AWS Marketplace launches aliases for all single AMI products Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, CentOS 8, and Fedora 34 AWS announces availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2022 images on Amazon EC2 VPC IPv6 endpoints are now available for the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon VPC DNS Server Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now resize their prefix list Amazon VPC Routing Enhancements Allow You to Inspect Traffic Between Subnets In a VPC | AWS News Blog Amazon VPC Announces New Routing Enhancements to Make It Easy to Deploy Virtual Appliances Between Subnets In a VPC Amazon EC2 announces increases for instance network bandwidth Application Load Balancer-type Target Group for Network Load Balancer | Networking & Content Delivery Other AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Dynamic Instance Type Selection Amazon EC2 Fleet instant mode now supports targeted Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations Dev & Ops Dev Amazon Managed Grafana Is Now Generally Available with Many New Features | AWS News Blog EC2 Image Builder supports Amazon EventBridge notifications Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds new inconsistency detectors AWS CDK releases v1.117.0 - v1.120.0 with improved support for Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Cognito, and more AWS CodeBuild now supports a small ARM machine type Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer enhances security findings generated by GitHub Action by adding severity fields and CWE tags Amazon Corretto 17 is now generally available AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web apps on Microsoft Edge browser Ops New for AWS CloudFormation – Quickly Retry Stack Operations from the Point of Failure | AWS News Blog AWS Systems Manager enables additional application management capabilities AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar now supports third-party calendar imports, giving you a more holistic view of events AWS Managed Services (AMS) now offers a catalog of operational offerings with Operations on Demand Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights and AWS Systems Manager Application Manager combine to offer an integrated application management experience Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds account application auto-discovery and new health dashboard ADOT New for AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Tracing Support is Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds support for Amazon ECS in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and metrics support for AWS Lambda applications in Amazon Managed Prometheus (Preview) Security ACM Private CA now supports the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) IAM Access Analyzer helps you generate fine-grained policies that specify the required actions for more than 50 services Amazon Macie adds support for selecting managed data identifiers WAF AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF log filtering AWS WAF now offers in-line regular expressions AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF rate-based rules Detective Amazon Detective offers Splunk integration Amazon Detective supports S3 and DNS finding types, adds finding details Data Storage & Processing Opensearch Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service and Supports OpenSearch 1.0 | AWS News Blog OpenSearch Dashboards Notebooks, a new visual reporting feature, now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Data Streams with OpenSearch 1.0 to simplify management of time-series data Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Index Transforms Migrating to OpenSearch with CloudFormation – One Cloud Please Databases Amazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g instances Amazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based X2g instances Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports configurable autoscaling timeout Amazon RDS now supports X2g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases. Amazon RDS now supports T4g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases. Amazon RDS now supports R5b instances for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases AQUA is now available for Amazon Redshift RA3.xlplus nodes New full-text search non-string indexing capabilities for Amazon Neptune Announcing general availability of Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL databases as new data sources for federated querying Amazon Redshift announces the next generation of Amazon Redshift Query Editor Storage New – Amazon EFS Intelligent-Tiering Optimizes Costs for Workloads with Changing Access Patterns | AWS News Blog How to Accelerate Performance and Availability of Multi-region Applications with Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points | AWS News Blog AWS SIGv4 and SIGv4A — shufflesharding.com Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering – Improved Cost Optimizations for Short-Lived and Small Objects | AWS News Blog New – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP | AWS News Blog Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports creating 64 TB EBS Snapshots MSK Introducing Amazon MSK Connect – Stream Data to and from Your Apache Kafka Clusters Using Managed Connectors | AWS News Blog Amazon MSK now supports running multiple authentication modes and updates to TLS encryption settings Other Now authenticate Amazon EMR Studio users using IAM-based authentication or IAM Federation, in addition to AWS Single Sign-On Now auto-terminate idle EMR clusters to lower cost AI & ML SageMaker Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports Inference Pipelines Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, and P3dn instances for SageMaker Studio Notebooks Amazon SageMaker now supports inference endpoint testing from SageMaker Studio Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now generates additional metrics for classification problems Other Extract custom entities from documents in their native format with Amazon Comprehend Amazon Comprehend announces model management and evaluation enhancements Optimize your Amazon Forecast model with the accuracy metric of your choice Other Cool Stuff Announcing custom widgets for CloudWatch dashboards Amazon CloudWatch request metrics for Amazon S3 Access Points now available Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for Microsoft SQL Server FCI and FSx storage Amazon Monitron launches a new ethernet gateway device Amazon Pinpoint now supports encrypted SNS topics for inbound SMS Amazon Braket introduces verbatim compilation for quantum circuits AWS ParallelCluster now supports cluster management through Amazon API Gateway Amazon SES now supports emails with a message size of up to 40MB AWS announces General Availability of the Amazon GameLift Plug-in and AWS CloudFormation Templates for Unity AWS Ground Station announces Licensing Accelerator New – Amazon Genomics CLI Is Now Open Source and Generally Available | AWS News Blog Connect Amazon Connect Wisdom is now generally available Contact Lens for Amazon Connect adds support for 8 languages Amazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interface Amazon Connect Customer Profiles adds product purchase history to personalize customer interactions Amazon Connect Voice ID is now generally available Amazon Connect now offers, in Public Preview, high-volume outbound communications for calls, texts, and emails IoT AWS IoT Device Management announces new fleet monitoring enhancements AWS IoT Device Defender announces Audit One-Click AWS IoT Device Defender now supports Detect alarm verification states Sponsors CMD Solutions Silver Sponsors Cevo Versent

July and August were very boring months for announcements, so Arjen, JM, and Guy decided to discuss them both in a single episode. They also decided to record before the month actually ended, which doesn’t really behoove them as they missed out on a couple of actually interesting announcements. So those will be discussed in our September episode. News Finally in Sydney Amazon ml.Inf1 instances are now available on Amazon SageMaker in 4 additional AWS Regions Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups Regional Expansion AWS Directory Service now supports smart card authentication with AD Connector for Amazon WorkSpaces in 5 additional AWS Regions Serverless Lambda AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.9 AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as an event source Amplify AWS Amplify launches new full-stack CI/CD capabilities Complete guide to full-stack CI/CD workflows with AWS Amplify | Front-End Web & Mobile AWS Amplify CLI adds support for storing environment variables and secrets accessed by AWS Lambda functions AWS Amplify allows you to mix and match authorization modes in DataStore AWS Amplify now supports Sign in with Apple Announcing Amplify Geo (Developer Preview) for AWS Amplify Other Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS with certificates from third-party CAs and ACM Private CA Simplify CI/CD configuration for serverless applications and your favorite CI/CD system — Public Preview AWS AppSync now supports custom authorization with AWS Lambda for GraphQL APIs Containers Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.21 Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes 1.21 | Containers Amazon EKS managed node groups now supports parallel node upgrades Amazon EKS now supports Multus Amazon ECS supports additional configurations for scheduled and event-driven tasks AWS Cloud Map supports configuring negative caching for DNS queries AWS App Mesh Constructs for AWS CDK are now generally available AWS Private Certificate Authority introduces integration with Kubernetes Amazon VPC CNI plugin increases pods per node limits EC2 & VPC Instances Introducing new Amazon EC2 G4ad instance sizes New – Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication during instance connectivity operations Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for C5d, M5d, and R5d Instances Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now assign IP prefixes to their EC2 instances Assigning prefixes to Amazon EC2 network interfaces - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon EC2 now supports custom time windows for Scheduled Events Auto Scaling Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling enhances Instance Refresh with configuration checks, Launch Template validation, and Amazon EventBridge notifications Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you control which instances to terminate on scale-in Other Amazon EC2 adds Resource Identifiers and Tags for VPC Security Group Rules Amazon CloudFront announces new APIs to locate and move alternate domain names (CNAMEs) AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Capacity Rebalancing for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances AWS lowers data processing charges for AWS PrivateLink AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN now supports VPC endpoints AWS IoT Core now supports VPC Endpoints Dev & Ops Dev Tooling EC2 Image Builder now supports parameters in components for creating custom images AWS Cloud9 introduces new features to browse CloudWatch Logs, S3, and use EC2 instance profiles Introducing AWS App Runner integration in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code Amazon CodeGuru Profiler adds recommendation support for Python applications Amazon CodeGuru Profiler extends visualizations capability with a new compare option for application profile Amazon CodeGuru Profiler announces new automated onboarding process for AWS Lambda functions CodeBuild Supports Publicly Viewable Build Results AWS AppConfig now enables customers to compare two application configuration versions AWS App2Container now supports containerization of complex multi-tier Windows applications CDK/CloudFormation Announcing CDK Pipelines GA, CI/CD for CDK Apps AWS CDK releases v1.111.0 - v1.116.0 with updates for unit testing and CDK Pipelines support AWS CloudFormation now supports more stacks per AWS account You can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack set Systems Manager AWS Systems Manager Application Manager now supports full lifecycle management of AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks Now view inventory and patch compliance of stopped instances using AWS Systems Manager AWS Systems Manager Automation now supports upgrade of SQL Server 2012 AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter launches operational insights to identify duplicate items and event sources with unusual activity Now enable auto-approval of change requests and expedite changes with AWS Systems Manager Change Manager AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports AWS IAM roles as approvers AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now offers report generation for Managed Instances Other AWS Control Tower announces improvements to guardrail naming and descriptions Announcing Amazon CloudWatch cross account alarms Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports visual monitoring Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Usage Metrics Security AWS Firewall Manager now supports central monitoring of VPC routes for AWS Network Firewall AWS Shield Advanced no longer requires AWS WAF logging for web-application layer event response AWS Certificate Manager provides expanded usage of imported ECDSA and RSA Certificates Amazon QLDB supports customer managed KMS keys AWS Control Tower now provides support for KMS Encryption AWS Security Hub adds 10 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator AWS WAF now offers managed rule group versioning AWS Security Hub adds 18 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard and 8 new partners for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring Data Storage & Processing AWS DataSync can now copy system access control lists (SACLs) to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Amazon Lightsail now offers object storage for storing static content Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager launches new console experience Announcing availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Microsoft SQL Server for Amazon EC2 Amazon Neptune now supports the openCypher query language Amazon RDS Proxy can now be created in a shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Automatic Minor Version Upgrades Introducing Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable, In-Memory Database Service | AWS News Blog AWS Transfer Family expands compatibility for FTPS/FTP clients and increases limit for number of servers Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling EBS AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes Amazon Elastic Block Store now supports idempotent volume creation AWS CloudTrail now supports logging of data events for Amazon EBS direct APIs Athena Amazon Athena adds parameterized queries to improve reusability and security Amazon Athena announces data source connector for Power BI S3 AWS Storage Gateway adds support for AWS Privatelink for Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Access Points Amazon S3 Access Points aliases allow any application that requires an S3 bucket name to easily use an access point Amazon S3 on Outposts supports direct access for applications running outside the Outposts VPC Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports sharing across multiple accounts Amazon EMR now supports Amazon S3 Access Points to simplify access control Redshift Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of JDBC/ODBC with authentication profile Cross-Account Data Sharing for Amazon Redshift | AWS News Blog Redshift spatial performance enhancements and new spatial functions Glue AWS Glue Studio now provides data previews during visual job authoring AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data directly into JDBC-supported destinations AWS Glue DataBrew adds the ability to specify which data quality statistics are generated for your datasets AWS Glue DataBrew now supports numerical format transformations AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data into AWS Lake Formation-based AWS Glue Data Catalog S3 tables Snow Family AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices now supports high performance NFS data transfer AWS Snow Family now enables you to remotely monitor and operate your connected Snowcone devices AWS Snowball now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks AWS Snowcone now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks AI & ML Amazon Textract announces improvements to detection of handwritten text, digits, dates, and phone numbers Amazon Textract announces specialized support for automated processing of invoices and receipts Announcing Model Variable Importance for Amazon Fraud Detector AWS customers can now view all the labels supported by Amazon Rekognition Amazon Neptune ML is now generally available with support for edge predictions, automation, and more Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2 SageMaker Amazon announces new AWS Deep Learning Containers to deploy Hugging Face models faster on Amazon SageMaker Amazon SageMaker Pipeline introduces a automatic hyperparameter tuning step Amazon SageMaker Autopilot and Automatic Model Tuning now support more refined access control using Condition Key Policies Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, P3dn, and G4dn instances for SageMaker Notebook Instances Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports invoking AWS Lambda Functions Amazon SageMaker notebook instance now supports Amazon Linux 2 Introducing Amazon SageMaker Asynchronous Inference, a new inference option

The month of June was not the most exciting one when it comes to announcements, but Arjen, Guy, and Jean-Manuel still found some things to talk about. Although there were more diversions than usual. News Finally in Sydney AQUA for Amazon Redshift launches in three additional AWS regions Amazon EMR Studio is now available in 13 regions Serverless Amazon API Gateway now supports synchronous invocations of Express Workflows using REST APIs AWS Amplify announces support for IAM permissions boundaries on Amplify-generated IAM roles Announcing Workflow Studio, a new low-code visual workflow designer for AWS Step Functions Simplify building of serverless applications with AWS-supported container images for continuous integration systems AWS SAM launches machine learning inference templates for AWS Lambda AWS Lambda now supports SASL/PLAIN authentication for functions triggered from self-managed Apache Kafka Containers Amazon EKS pods running on AWS Fargate now support custom security groups AWS App Mesh introduces enhanced ingress traffic management capabilities Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.4.0 with Ingress Enhancements Customize and Package Dependencies With Your Apache Spark Applications on Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS | AWS News Blog EC2 & VPC AWS Removes NAT Gateway’s Dependence on Internet Gateway for Private Communications Amazon EC2 adds new AMI property to flag outdated AMIs Amazon EC2 now allows you to create crash-consistent AMIs from instances with multiple EBS volumes without rebooting instances AWS Backup now supports crash-consistent backups of Amazon EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance Announcing per second billing for EC2 Windows Server and SQL Server Instances AWS announces a new shell for F1 instances with increased FPGA resources and data transfer speeds Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances - New features, improved performance and lower prices Dev & Ops AWS Systems Manager Session Manager plugin for the AWS CLI is now open source AWS announces the general availability of AWS Proton Introducing a Public Registry for AWS CloudFormation | AWS News Blog AWS Control Tower announces accessibility, console and performance improvements Configure GitHub Actions workflows with a new GitHub Action for building serverless applications Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Updates: New Java Detectors and CI/CD Integration with GitHub Actions | AWS News Blog AWS Systems Manager now supports free text search for a node in the Session Manager console Security Amazon Cognito now supports SMS Sandbox from Amazon SNS AWS Security Hub adds 16 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring AWS Resource Access Manager enables granular access control with additional managed permissions AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports more flexibility for CAs shared across accounts KMS Multi-Region Keys AWS WAF adds 15 new text transformations IAM Access Analyzer adds new policy checks to help validate conditions during IAM policy authoring Data Storage & Processing Amazon QLDB supports IAM-based access policy for PartiQL queries and ledger tables Announcing Global Clusters for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Identify and Copy existing objects to use S3 Bucket Keys, reducing the costs of Server-Side Encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS) AWS Glue Studio now allows you to specify streaming ETL job settings Announcing R5d instances and lookup cache for Amazon Neptune Amazon Neptune simplifies in-console experience to help customers get started faster AWS Glue Studio now includes a code editor for customizing your job scripts File Access Auditing Is Now Available for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server | AWS News Blog Amazon Athena engine version 2 is generally available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regions Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports fast database cloning Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Now Supports r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge Instances Amazon EMR now supports up to thirty instance type configurations in Instance Fleets Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports encryption in transit of data between your applications and DAX clusters, and between the nodes within a DAX cluster AI & ML Amazon SageMaker model registry now supports rollback of deployed models Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports callback capability Amazon Translate is Now Integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge Amazon Lex announces support for multi-valued slots Connect to your Amazon CloudWatch data to detect anomalies and diagnose their root causes using Amazon Lookout for Metrics Amazon Translate now supports XML Localization Interchange File Format - XLIFF documents Amazon SageMaker Now Supports ml.G4dn instances for Batch Transform and Processing Jobs Other Cool Stuff Amazon CloudWatch adds Control Plane API Usage Metrics across AWS Services Amazon Location Service Is Now Generally Available with New Routing and Satellite Imagery Capabilities | AWS News Blog New LoRaWAN gateway management features generally available for AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN Announcing support for custom partitioning in AWS IoT Analytics Data Stores AWS China (Beijing) Region Adds the Third Availability Zone AWS Client VPN launches desktop client for Linux Amazon Connect launches API to configure quick connects programmatically In the Works – AWS Region in Tel Aviv, Israel | AWS News Blog New – AWS BugBust: It’s Game Over for Bugs | AWS News Blog The Nanos The month of June... 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Once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy discuss the latest and greatest announcements from AWS in this roundup of the news of May. Also once again, this was recorded 2 months before it went up, but luckily it's all still relevant. Even the comments about being in lockdown. News Finally in Sydney 😢 Serverless Lambda Getting Started with Your Favorite Operational Tools on AWS Lambda – Extensions Are Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog AWS Compute Optimizer Now Supports Exporting Amazon EBS and AWS Lambda Recommendations to Amazon S3 EventBridge Amazon EventBridge now supports sharing events between event buses in the same account and Region AWS Step Functions now supports custom events to Amazon EventBridge Other AWS Amplify Hosting announces server-side rendering (SSR) support for Next.js web apps Introducing CloudFront Functions – Run Your Code at the Edge with Low Latency at Any Scale | AWS News Blog Amazon API Gateway REST APIs integrates with Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows Containers EKS Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.20 Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now generally available Use Kubernetes Pod Templates with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS to simplify running Spark workloads and control costs Amazon EKS managed node groups adds support for Kubernetes node taints EKS Add-Ons Now Supports CoreDNS and kube-proxy Other New – AWS App Runner: From Code to a Scalable, Secure Web Application in Minutes | AWS News Blog Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate now allows you to configure the size of ephemeral storage for your Tasks AWS announces a price reduction for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now supports container monitoring EC2 & VPC Four new EC2 High Memory instances with up to 12TB of memory are now available with On-Demand and Savings Plan purchase options EC2 Image Builder supports Auto Scaling launch template Amazon VPC Announces Pricing Change for VPC Peering Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Introduces Predictive Scaling as a Native Scaling Policy AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations AWS Outposts launches support for EC2 Capacity Reservations Amazon Lightsail DNS now supports pointing root domains to Lightsail Container Services Dev & Ops Dev AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 and Go CDK is now available for Developer Preview Porting Assistant for .NET now available as a Visual Studio IDE extension Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now supports customer-managed customer master keys Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports cron expression for scheduling AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code adds Java and Go Support for Serverless Applications AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints Ops Resolve IT Incidents Faster with Incident Manager, a New Capability of AWS Systems Manager | AWS News Blog (Ian's scathing review of this on Twitter) Amazon DevOps Guru now generally available with additional capabilities Now use AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar to prevent desired-state updates during critical events AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0 is now generally available Customizations for AWS Control Tower v2.1 adds more scaling optimizations and improves compatibility with AWS CodeBuild Security AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now makes it easier for you to manage permissions for AWS services accessing your resources AWS Audit Manager now offers three new frameworks - NIST Cybersecurity Framework version 1.1, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, and AWS Well-Architected framework AWS WAF adds support for log filtering Amazon Macie supports criteria-based bucket selection for sensitive data discovery jobs Introducing IAM Access Control for Apache Kafka on Amazon MSK AWS License Manager now provides historical license usage reporting AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration with Atlassian Jira Service Management AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports storing CRLs in private S3 buckets Data Storage & Processing Amazon Redshift announces preview of cross-account data sharing Amazon DynamoDB local now supports the AWS SDK for Java 2.x Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now support Amazon RDS Encrypted Cross-Region Automated Backups Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers AWS Graviton2 (M6g, C6g, R6g, and R6gd) instances AWS Data Provider for SAP Version 4.0 now available Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Managed Disaster Recovery (DR) with Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups New – Create Microsoft SQL Server Instances of Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts | AWS News Blog AWS Lake Formation now supports Tag-based access control (TBAC) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports RollbackApplication, ListApplicationVersions, and DescribeApplicationVersion APIs in preview Amazon Athena adds built-in support for cross-account AWS Glue Data Catalogs Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new lower cost storage tier AWS Database Migration Service now supports Apache Kafka TLS and Authentication Amazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations AWS Transfer Family now supports Microsoft Active Directory Amazon RDS for Oracle supports multitenant container database Amazon Aurora MySQL Improves Availability of Read Replicas Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.0 AWS announces general availability of Amazon Redshift ML Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports data compression AWS Launch Wizard adds support for SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instances deployed on Amazon FSx for Windows File Server AI & ML Prepare data for machine learning faster and easier on Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler with support for more data sources and distributed jobs Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports up to 10x faster tuning and enables exploring up to 20X more models Support for Kantar watermarking is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert Amazon Transcribe improves live subtitling with partial results stabilization Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic deployment support for the best trained model Amazon SageMaker now offers new flexibility in configuring the model building pipelines Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 5X more items using 3X more historic data points Amazon SageMaker Pipelines is now integrated with Amazon SageMaker Experiments Amazon Kendra releases Query Suggestions Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic cross validation to improve model quality on smaller datasets by up to 35% Other Cool Stuff New Amazon FinSpace Simplifies Data Management and Analytics for Financial Services | AWS News Blog New Developer Desktop Feature in AWS RoboMaker Integrated Development Environment (IDE) AWS Organizations launches new console experience Migration Evaluator announces a faster way to project AWS cloud costs with Quick Insights AWS Local Zones Are Now Open in Boston, Miami, and Houston | AWS News Blog Amazon Connect adds near real-time insights into voice call, chat, and task activity How to Use the New AWS Application Migration Service for Lift-and-Shift Migrations | AWS News Blog AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds CDI and JPEG XS support Announcing the general availability of AWS IoT Core Device Advisor AWS Application Cost Profiler AWS customers can now self opt-in to AWS Wavelength Zones Amazon WorkDocs adds filtering to the activity feed for both iOS and Android Fleet Hub for AWS IoT Device Management, a new, easy way to monitor & interact with IoT device fleets, is now generally available In the Works – AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) | AWS News Blog Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Dimension support for Metric Filters Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Resource Health The Nanos Amazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers(Arjen) Amazon WorkDocs adds filtering to the activity feed for both iOS and Android (Guy) Sponsors Gold Sponsor Innablr Silver Sponsors AC3 CMD Solutions DoIT International

Setting a new record for delay in editing, you can finally listen to Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from April 2021. This was recorded nearly two months before it was released. News Finally in Sydney Amazon Transcribe Custom Language Models now support Australian English, British English, Hindi and US Spanish Multi-Attach for Provisioned IOPS io2 Now Available in Thirteen Additional AWS Regions AWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in additional AWS Regions AWS CloudShell is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions Serverless API Gateway Amazon API Gateway custom domain names now support multi-level base path mappings Lambda AWS Lambda@Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights Now Supports AWS Lambda Container Images (General Availability) Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS Lambda AWS Lambda@Edge now supports Node 14.x Step Functions AWS Step Functions adds new data flow simulator for modelling input and output processing EventBridge Amazon EventBridge introduces support for cross-Region event bus targets AWS Chatbot now expands coverage of AWS Services monitored through Amazon EventBridge Amplify Data management is now generally available in the AWS Amplify Admin UI Amplify iOS now available via Swift Package Manager (SPM) AWS Amplify now orchestrates multiple Amazon DynamoDB GSI updates in a single deployment Containers eksctl now supports creating node groups using resource specifications and dry run mode AWS Secrets Manager Delivers Provider for Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver EC2 & VPC Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces Warm Pools to accelerate scale out while saving money Amazon VPC Flow Logs announces out-of-the-box integration with Amazon Athena MacSec Encryption for some Direct Connect (apologies, linking to this prevents the podcast from getting published :shrug:) New AWS Storage Gateway management console simplifies gateway creation and management AWS Batch now supports EFS volumes at the job level AWS Backup now supports cost allocation tags for Amazon EFS Backups Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is now available in major AWS regions worldwide Amazon EC2 enables replacing root volumes for quick restoration and troubleshooting Announcing availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with High availability for Amazon EC2 AWS Nitro Enclaves now supports Windows operating system Dev & Ops Dev Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Updates: New Predictable Pricing Model Up To 90% Lower and Python Support Moves to GA | AWS News Blog Now available credential profile support for AWS SSO and Assume Role with MFA in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio AWS CodeDeploy improves support for EC2 deployments with Auto Scaling Groups AWS SAM CLI now supports AWS CDK applications - public preview Better together: AWS SAM and AWS CDK | AWS Compute Blog Proton AWS Proton allows adding and removing instances from an existing service AWS Proton introduces customer-managed environments AWS Proton adds an API to cancel deployments CloudFormation You can now deploy CloudFormation Stacks concurrently across multiple AWS regions using AWS CloudFormation StackSets AWS CloudFormation Command Line Interface (CFN-CLI) now supports TypeScript AWS CloudFormation Modules now Provides YAML and Delimiter Support Now reference latest AWS Systems Manager parameter values in AWS CloudFormation templates without specifying parameter versions You can now use macros and transforms in CloudFormation templates to create AWS CloudFormation StackSets Control Tower AWS Control Tower introduces changes to preventive S3 guardrails and updates to S3 bucket encryption protocols AWS Control Tower now provides configurable naming during Landing Zone setup Systems Manager AWS Systems Manager Run Command now displays more logs and enables log download from the console AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports easier public parameter discoverability Customers can now use ServiceNow to track operational items related to AWS resources AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports removal of parameter labels AWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter and Explorer now integrate with AWS Security Hub for diagnosis and remediation of security findings Security Firewalls How to Get Started with Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall for Amazon VPC | AWS News Blog Reduce Unwanted Traffic on Your Website with New AWS WAF Bot Control | AWS News Blog AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized management of Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized deployment of the new AWS WAF Bot Control across your organization AWS WAF now supports Labels to improve rule customization and reporting Identity Review last accessed information to identify unused EC2, IAM, and Lambda permissions and tighten access for your IAM roles AWS Identity and Access Management now makes it easier to relate a user's IAM role activity to their corporate identity Other AWS Config launches the ability to track and visualize compliance change history of conformance packs AWS Security Hub Automated Response & Remediation Solution adds support for AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard You now can use AWS CloudTrail to log Amazon DynamoDB Streams data-plane API activity Data Storage & Processing Glue Detect outliers and use dedicated transforms to handle outliers in AWS Glue DataBrew AWS Glue DataBrew now supports time-based, pattern-based and customizable parameters to create dynamic datasets AWS announces preview of AWS Glue custom blueprints AWS Glue now supports cross-account reads from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams AWS Glue now supports missing value imputation based on machine learning AWS announces data sink capability for the Glue connectors AWS Glue DataBrew announces native console integration with Amazon AppFlow to connect to data from SaaS (Software as a Service) applications and AWS services (in Preview) Redshift AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) – A Speed Boost for Your Amazon Redshift Queries | AWS News Blog Announcing cross-VPC support for Amazon Redshift powered by AWS PrivateLink Announcing general availability of Amazon Redshift native console integration with partners Announcing general availability of Amazon Redshift native JSON and semi-structured data support EMR Amazon EMR Release 5.33 now supports 10 new instance types Amazon EMR Studio is now generally available Athena Announcing general availability of Amazon Athena ML powered by Amazon SageMaker User Defined Functions (UDF) are now generally available for Amazon Athena RDS Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Extended Events Amazon RDS on VMware networking now simplified and more secure Other Amazon FSx and AWS Backup announce support for copying file system backups across AWS Regions and AWS accounts AWS Batch increases job scheduling and EC2 instance scaling performance Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports integration with Microsoft Power BI AWS Ground Station now supports data delivery to Amazon S3 Amazon ElastiCache now supports publishing Redis logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Kinesis Data Firehose AI & ML SageMaker Decrease Your Machine Learning Costs with Instance Price Reductions and Savings Plans for Amazon SageMaker | AWS News Blog New options to trigger Amazon SageMaker Pipeline executions ( EventBridge) Other Detect abnormal equipment behavior with Amazon Lookout for Equipment — now generally available Amazon Fraud Detector now supports Batch Fraud Predictions Get estimated run time for forecast creation jobs while using Amazon Forecast Amazon Kendra launches dynamic relevance tuning Other Cool Stuff WorkSpaces Amazon WorkSpaces webcam support now Generally Available Amazon WorkSpaces now supports smart cards with the WorkSpaces macOS client application IVS Amazon Interactive Video Service adds new Cloudwatch Metrics Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for recording live streams to Amazon S3 Connect Amazon Connect launches audio device settings for the custom Contact Control Panel (CCP) Amazon Connect allows contact center managers to configure agent settings in a custom Contact Control Panel (CCP) Other AWS RoboMaker now supports the ability to configure tools for simulation jobs Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for fully managed image updates Amazon Managed Service for Grafana now supports Grafana Enterprise upgrade, Grafana version 7.5, Open Distro for Elasticsearch integration, and AWS Billing reports AWS Cloud9 now supports Amazon Linux 2 environments CloudWatch Metric Streams – Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time | AWS News Blog Announcing open source robotics projects for AWS DeepRacer Announcing Moving Graphs for CloudWatch Dashboards Amazon Nimble Studio – Build a Creative Studio in the Cloud | AWS News Blog AWS Snow Family now enables you to order, track, and manage long-term pricing Snow jobs The Nanos AWS Console Mobile Application adds support 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Severely delayed once again, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy did discuss the news of March once again. An episode full of good names, bad names, and complaints about services while there was also plenty to love. So, a fairly typical month. News Finally in Sydney AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt and London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions Amazon EC2 D3 instances with dense local HDD storage now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions Get to know the first new AWS Heroes of 2021! | AWS News Blog(Community Hero Zainab Maleki from Perth) Serverless Lambda Introducing Amazon S3 Object Lambda – Use Your Code to Process Data as It Is Being Retrieved from S3 | AWS News Blog The AWS Lambda console now features a new navigation design AWS Lambda adds four Trusted Advisor checks Step Functions AWS Step Functions adds tooling support for YAML Announcing AWS Step Functions’ integration with Amazon EMR on EKS EventBridge Amazon EventBridge introduces support for API Destinations Containers ECS Amazon ECS now allows you to execute commands in a container running on Amazon EC2 or AWS Fargate AWS - Session Manager and ECS Exec | ig.nore.me AWS Copilot launches v1.4 with support for ECS exec and more EKS Amazon EKS reduces control plane creation time for EKS clusters by 40% Amazon EKS now supports adding KMS envelope encryption to existing clusters to enhance security for secrets Amazon EKS now supports creation and management of add-ons using AWS CloudFormation Amazon EKS now supports P4d instances Amazon EKS now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter Amazon EFS CSI driver now supports dynamic provisioning Other AWS Cloud Map now supports API-only services in namespaces configured with DNS resolution Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Now GA | AWS News Blog EC2 & VPC EC2 Troubleshoot Boot and Networking Issues with New EC2 Serial Console | AWS News Blog Announcing new Amazon EC2 X2gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds support for local time zones for scheduled scaling Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh now supports phased deployments Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2 VPC Amazon VPC Flow Logs now reflects AWS Service name, Traffic Path and Flow Direction Amazon Timestream now supports Amazon VPC endpoints Dev & Ops CICD AWS CodePipeline now supports 1000 pipelines per account AWS Proton now supports services without pipelines AWS Proton introduces deletion protection for in-use templates AWS Proton makes new fields available for Jinja parametrization Systems Manager AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter now displays an aggregated view of all operational issues for a specified resource AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports multi-level approvals Other Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code Amazon EventBridge now supports propagation of X-Ray trace context Announcing Kotlin-centric developer experience in Amplify Android Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 16 AWS announces Developer Preview release of opinionated deployment tool for .NET CLI Security Security Hub AWS Security Hub adds 25 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard AWS Security Hub integrates with Amazon Macie to automatically ingest sensitive data findings for improved centralized security posture management Config AWS Config Adds 3 New Config Rules for Amazon Secrets Manager AWS Config adds pagination support for advanced queries that contain aggregate functions WAF AWS Shield Advanced now supports resource tagging AWS WAF adds support for Custom Responses AWS WAF adds support for Request Header Insertion Other AWS CloudTrail Adds Logging of Data Events for Amazon DynamoDB AWS Certificate Manager now provides certificate expiry monitoring through Amazon CloudWatch AWS Secrets Manager now provides support to replicate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager to multiple AWS Regions IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | AWS News Blog New AWS SSO gallery app simplifies Azure AD set-up with AWS AWS Audit Manager now supports CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.3.0, Level 1 and 2 as a new standard framework Data Storage & Processing S3 Amazon S3 Glacier Price Reduction | AWS News Blog AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon S3 on Outposts Databases Achieve up to 35% better price/performance with Amazon Aurora using new Graviton2 instances Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible edition supports simultaneous authentication with both Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) AWS Backup adds support for continuous backup and point-in-time recovery of Amazon RDS instances Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Cross-Region Automated Backups Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports rollback protection for database major version upgrades Amazon RDS Proxy adds read-only endpoints for Amazon Aurora Replicas Amazon RDS Proxy now supports database connectivity from multiple Amazon VPCs Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-database queries Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Data Sharing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Event Subscriptions Other New – Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System | AWS News Blog Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availability Amazon Elasticsearch Service now publishes events to Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge for service software updates AWS Glue Studio now supports transforms defined in SQL AWS Backup adds support for bulk deletion of recovery points AWS Data Exchange providers can now copy product metadata from their existing products to a new product AI & ML SageMaker Announcing support for multiple containers on Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints, leading to cost savings of up to 80% Leverage state of the art Natural Language Processing with Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker Amazon SageMaker now supports private Docker registry authentication Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds Model Explainability Other Detect anomalies in your metrics, and diagnose issues quickly with Amazon Lookout for Metrics – now generally available Announcing General Availability of AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect Introducing a new API allowing you to stop in-progress workflows in Amazon Forecast Amazon Transcribe supports word-level confidence scores for streaming transcription Other Cool Stuff Regions AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region Now Open to All, with Three AZs and More Services | AWS News Blog Connect Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports data sources from Amazon S3 Amazon Connect now supports 15 minute intervals for historical metric reporting Amazon Connect now provides an out-of-the-box chat user interface for your website Other Services/Features AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Use Controlled Experiments to Boost Resilience | AWS News Blog Announcing General Availability of Ethereum on Amazon Managed Blockchain Bundle Management APIs now generally available for Amazon WorkSpaces AWS announces General Availability of Amazon GameLift Queue notifications The Nanos AWS Fargate updates platform version 1.4.0 to be the LATEST version(Arjen) AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions(Jean-Manuel) Sponsors Gold Sponsor Innablr Silver Sponsors AC3 CMD Solutions DoIT International

February was a slow month for AWS releases, but Arjen, JM, and Guy did their best to make it fun anyway. Except for those times where Arjen tried to convince everyone to fall asleep to his new podcast. The News The shameless plug Arjen Without Sleep Finally in Sydney AWS Graviton2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul, Hong Kong) regions, and M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd instances now available in EU (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney) regions Amazon EC2 M5zn instances, with high frequency processors and 100 Gbps networking are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore and Sydney) AWS Direct Connect Announces Native 100 Gbps Dedicated Connections at Select Locations Serverless AWS Lambda now supports Node.js 14 Announcing General Availability of Amplify Flutter, with new data and authentication support Containers AWS App Mesh now supports mutual TLS authentication Amazon EKS clusters now support user authentication with OIDC compatible identity providers Introducing OIDC identity provider authentication for Amazon EKS | Containers Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.19 AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas to 1000 AWS Config now supports Amazon container services EC2 & VPC Introducing Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn Bare Metal Instances Amazon Elastic File System triples read throughput AWS Elemental MediaLive adds support for VPC outputs AWS Backup Events and Metrics now available in Amazon CloudWatch Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now customize reverse DNS for their Elastic IP addresses Application Load Balancer now supports Application Cookie Stickiness Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring is now supported on select non-Nitro instance types Scheduled Actions of Application Auto Scaling now support Local Time Zone Access Amazon EFS file systems from EC2 Mac instances running macOS Big Sur Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now shows scaling history for deleted groups Dev & Ops Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports Amazon API Gateway in API blueprint Insights is now generally available for AWS X-Ray AWS Cloud9 launches visual source control integration for Git Assign a Delegated Administrator to manage AWS CloudFormation StackSets across your AWS Organization AWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads using AWS Graviton2 Security Amazon GuardDuty introduces machine learning domain reputation model to expand threat detection and improve accuracy Amazon Macie announces a slew of new capabilities including support for cross-account sensitive data discovery, scanning by Amazon S3 object prefix, improved pre-scan cost estimation, and added location detail in findings Introducing Amazon VPC Endpoints for AWS CloudHSM AWS WAF adds support for JSON parsing and inspection Support for KMS encryption on S3 buckets used by AWS Config Data Storage & Processing Amazon S3 now supports AWS PrivateLink Introducing Amazon EBS Local Snapshots on Outposts You now can use PartiQL with DynamoDB local to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Timestream now offers cross table queries, query execution statistics, and more Amazon Aurora Global Database supports managed planned failover Managed planned failovers with Amazon Aurora Global Database | AWS Database Blog Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB support replication filtering Amazon S3 on Outposts adds a smaller storage tier Amazon Redshift Query Editor now supports clusters with enhanced VPC routing, longer query run times, and all node types Amazon RDS Publishes New Events for Multi-AZ Deployments Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Always On Availability Groups for Standard Edition Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports rollups, reducing storage costs for extended retention Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 13 AI & ML Now create Amazon SageMaker Studio presigned URL with custom expiration time AWS DeepComposer launches Transformer Notebook on GitHub Automate quality inspection with Amazon Lookout for Vision — now generally available Other cool stuff Introducing Amazon CloudFront Security Savings Bundle Amazon SNS now supports 1-minute CloudWatch metrics Update content of inbound and outbound emails using AWS Lambda in Amazon WorkMail AWS Control Tower now provides region selection The Nanos AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new regions Amazon Pinpoint now supports 10DLC and toll-free numbers Amazon SNS now supports 1-minute CloudWatch metrics Sponsors Gold Sponsor Innablr Silver Sponsors AC3 CMD Solutions DoIT International

In this month's episode where we tell you what AWS released since re:Invent, Guy gets to talk a fair bit about IoT, JM just wants to remind everyone of various things, and Arjen suffers from some sleep deprivation. What's New Finally in Sydney PartiQL for DynamoDB now is supported in 23 AWS Regions AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions Announcing new Amazon EC2 T4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors along with a T4g free trial in Asia Pacific (Sydney, Singapore), Europe (London), North Americas (Canada Central, San Francisco), and South Americas (Sao Paulo) regions Serverless Lambda AWS Compute Optimizer Now Delivers Recommendations For AWS Lambda Functions AWS Lambda now makes it easier to build analytics for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams AWS Lambda now supports self-managed Apache Kafka as an event source AWS Lambda launches checkpointing for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams AWS Lambda now supports SASL/SCRAM authentication for functions triggered from Amazon MSK API Gateway Amazon API Gateway now supports data mapping in HTTP APIs Containers Monitoring Join the Preview – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) | AWS News Blog Announcing Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (in Preview) | AWS News Blog Amazon CloudWatch now adds Fluent Bit support for container logs from Amazon EKS and Kubernetes General EC2 Image Builder now supports container images ECS Amazon ECS announces the general availability of ECS Deployment Circuit Breaker Amazon Elastic Container Service launches new management console Amazon ECS now supports VPC Endpoint policies Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas for tasks per service and services per cluster EKS AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.1 now available with support for additional ELB configurations EC2 & VPC Instances Announcing new Amazon EC2 C6gn instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors with 100 Gbps networking Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows to define 40 instance types when defining Mixed Instances Policy EBS Multi-Attach support now available on Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volume type, io2 Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now automates copying EBS snapshots across accounts Networking Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addresses Amazon EC2 API now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Lightsail Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6 Dev & Ops Dev AWS SDK for Go version 2 is now generally available AWS SDK for JavaScript version 3 is now generally available Porting Assistant for .NET supports automated code translation Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 11 for Linux on ARM32 and for Windows on x86 (32-bit) AWS App2Container now supports remote execution of containerization workflows AWS CodePipeline supports deployments with CloudFormation StackSets Announcing CDK Support for AWS Chalice Ops Introducing AWS Systems Manager Change Manager | AWS News Blog New – AWS Systems Manager Consolidates Application Management | AWS News Blog Introducing AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager Security AWS Single Sign-On now supports Microsoft Active Directory (AD) synchronization Announcing Amazon Route 53 support for DNSSEC AWS Config launches ability to save advanced queries Amazon GuardDuty adds three new threat detections to help you better protect your data stored in Amazon S3 Amazon Cognito Identity Pools enables using user attributes from identity providers for access control to simplify permissions management in AWS AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports additional certificate customization Amazon Detective enhances IP Address Analytics Data storage & processing AWS Glue launches AWS Glue Custom Connectors Amazon CloudSearch announces updates to its search instances New – AWS Transfer Family support for Amazon Elastic File System | AWS News Blog Achieve faster database failover with Amazon Web Services MySQL JDBC Driver - now in preview Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7 Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 12 Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports JSON syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easily AI & ML Introducing Amazon SageMaker ml.P4d instances for highest performance ML training in the cloud IoT New – AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN to Connect, Manage, and Secure LoRaWAN Devices at Scale | AWS News Blog Announcing AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0 – With an Open Source Edge Runtime and New Developer Capabilities | AWS News Blog Announcing AWS IoT SiteWise Edge (Preview), a new capability of AWS IoT SiteWise to collect, process, and monitor industrial equipment data on-premises Announcing support for Alarms (Preview) in AWS IoT Events and AWS IoT SiteWise Introducing AWS IoT SiteWise plugin for Grafana AWS IoT Core Device Advisor now available in preview AWS IoT Core adds the ability to deliver data to Apache Kafka clusters AWS IoT SiteWise launches support for Modbus TCP and EtherNet/IP protocols with enhancements to OPC-UA data ingestion Introducing AWS IoT EduKit Announcing AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect public preview Announcing date and time functions and timezone support in AWS IoT SiteWise Other Cool Stuff Policy Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog Services AWS CloudShell – Command-Line Access to AWS Resources | AWS News Blog Amazon Location – Add Maps and Location Awareness to Your Applications | AWS News Blog AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is now generally available Features APIs now available for the AWS Well-Architected Tool Cost & Usage Report Now Available to Member (Linked) Accounts Announcing the availability of AWS Outposts Private Connectivity Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Ethereum (Preview) AWS Snow Family now supports the Amazon Linux 2 operating system Service Quotas now supports tagging and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) Amazon Lex Introduces an Enhanced Console Experience and New V2 APIs | AWS News Blog SQS Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues (Preview) Amazon SQS announces tiered pricing Control Tower region AWS Control Tower now extends governance to existing OUs in your AWS Organizations AWS Control Tower now provides bulk account update The Nanos Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from PostgreSQL 11 to 12 Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 11 for Linux on ARM32 and for Windows on x86 (32-bit) Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addresses Sponsors Gold Sponsor Innablr Silver Sponsors AC3 CMD Solutions DoIT International

re:Invent arrived, and with it came a lot of announcements. Some meh, some good, some great. In this episode Arjen, Jean-Manuel, Guy, and special guest star Rob will do their best to make sense of it. Or maybe they just make it more confusing? Who knows? Our brains can't really handle the number of announcements. Which is probably also why it took far too long to edit this episode. What's New Finally in ANZ In the Works – AWS Region in Melbourne, Australia | AWS News Blog Amazon EMR now provides up to 30% lower cost and up to 15% improved performance for Spark workloads on Graviton2-based instances Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 with PostgreSQL compatibility now available in eight additional regions Amazon SageMaker Studio is now expanded to AWS regions worldwide Serverless Lambda New for AWS Lambda – 1ms Billing Granularity Adds Cost Savings | AWS News Blog New for AWS Lambda – Functions with Up to 10 GB of Memory and 6 vCPUs | AWS News Blog New for AWS Lambda – Container Image Support | AWS News Blog Using Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights to Improve Operational Visibility | AWS News Blog AWS Lambda now supports batch windows of up to 5 minutes for functions with Amazon SQS as an event source AWS Lambda now supports Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) Announcing Code Signing, a trust and integrity control for AWS Lambda EventBridge AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar integrates with Amazon EventBridge to enable automated actions based on calendar state changes Amazon EventBridge adds Server-Side Encryption (SSE) and increases default quotas Step Functions Amazon API Gateway now supports integration with Step Functions StartSyncExecution for HTTP APIs AWS Step Functions now supports Synchronous Express Workflows Amplify AWS Amplify announces new Admin UI Containers ECR Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public: A New Public Container Registry | AWS News Blog Amazon ECR announces cross region replication of images Fargate New – Fully Serverless Batch Computing with AWS Batch Support for AWS Fargate | AWS News Blog ECS Introducing Amazon ECS Anywhere | Containers Amazon ECS Announces the Preview of ECS Deployment Circuit Breaker Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling now supports specifying a custom instance warm-up time Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Update Functionality Amazon ECS adds support for P4d instance types Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling now offers more responsive scaling AWS Copilot CLI is now Generally Available EKS Amazon EKS Anywhere – Amazon Web Services Amazon EKS Distro: The Kubernetes Distribution Used by Amazon EKS | AWS News Blog Simplify running Apache Spark jobs with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS Amazon EKS simplifies installation and management for Kubernetes cluster add-ons Amazon EKS adds built-in logging support for AWS Fargate Amazon EKS adds support for EC2 Spot Instances in managed node groups Amazon EKS Console Now Includes Kubernetes Resources to Simplify Cluster Management EC2 & VPC EBS New – Amazon EBS gp3 Volume Lets You Provision Performance Apart From Capacity | AWS News Blog Now in Preview – Larger & Faster io2 Block Express EBS Volumes with Higher Throughput | AWS News Blog AWS announces tiered pricing for input/output operations per second (IOPS) charges for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) io2 volume, reducing the cost of provisioning peak IOPS by 15% Amazon EBS reduces the minimum volume size of Throughput Optimized HDD and Cold HDD Volumes by 75% AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Amazon EBS volume recommendations Instance Types New – Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps | AWS News Blog New EC2 M5zn Instances – Fastest Intel Xeon Scalable CPU in the Cloud | AWS News Blog Coming Soon – Amazon EC2 G4ad Instances Featuring AMD GPUs for Graphics Workloads | AWS News Blog Coming Soon – EC2 C6gn Instances – 100 Gbps Networking with AWS Graviton2 Processors | AWS News Blog EC2 Update – D3 / D3en Dense Storage Instances | AWS News Blog New – Amazon EC2 R5b Instances Provide 3x Higher EBS Performance | AWS News Blog   Other EC2 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) now support tag-on-create and tag-based access control Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports attaching multiple network interfaces at launch AWS Announcing Windows Server version 20H2 AMIs for Amazon EC2 Simplify EC2 provisioning and viewing cloud resources in the ServiceNow CMDB with AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow Networking New – VPC Reachability Analyzer | AWS News Blog Introducing AWS Transit Gateway Connect to simplify SD-WAN branch connectivity AWS Global Accelerator launches custom routing Dev & Ops New services Preview: AWS Proton – Automated Management for Container and Serverless Deployments | AWS News Blog AWS announces Amazon DevOps Guru in Preview, an ML-powered cloud operations service to improve application availability for AWS workloads Preview: Amazon Lookout for Metrics, an Anomaly Detection Service for Monitoring the Health of Your Business | AWS News Blog Code New for Amazon CodeGuru – Python Support, Security Detectors, and Memory Profiling | AWS News Blog Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces Security Detectors to help improve code security Amazon CodeGuru Profiler adds Memory Profiling and Heap Summary Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces CodeQuality Detector to help manage technical debt and codebase maintainability AWS CodeArtifact now supports NuGet Tools AWS IDE Toolkit now available for AWS Cloud9 Porting Assistant for .NET adds support for .NET 5 Other Announcing Modules for AWS CloudFormation Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports canary scripts in Python with Selenium framework AWS Systems Manager now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint policies Security New services AWS Audit Manager Simplifies Audit Preparation | AWS News Blog SSO New – Attribute-Based Access Control with AWS Single Sign-On | AWS News Blog AWS Single Sign-On enables administrators to require users to set up MFA devices during sign-in AWS Single Sign-On adds Web Authentication (WebAuthn) support for user authentication with security keys and built-in biometric authenticators Other AWS CloudTrail provides more granular control of data event logging through advanced event selectors AWS Security Hub adds open source tool integrations with Kube-bench and Cloud Custodian AWS Transfer Family supports AWS WAF for identity provider integrations AWS Secrets Manager now supports 5000 requests per second for the GetSecretValue API operation Data Storage & Processing Aurora Introducing the next version of Amazon Aurora Serverless in preview Introducing Amazon Aurora R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, in preview (includes Sydney) Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is Available for Preview Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS Lambda RDS Amazon RDS for Oracle supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups PostgreSQL 13 now available in Amazon RDS Database preview environment Lakes Amazon HealthLake Stores, Transforms, and Analyzes Health Data in the Cloud | AWS News Blog Announcing preview of AWS Lake Formation features: Transactions, Row-level Security, and Acceleration S3 New – Amazon S3 Replication Adds Support for Multiple Destination Buckets | AWS News Blog Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency | AWS News Blog Amazon S3 Replication adds support for multiple destinations in the same, or different AWS Regions Amazon S3 now delivers strong read-after-write consistency automatically for all applications Amazon S3 Bucket Keys reduce the costs of Server-Side Encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS) Amazon S3 Replication adds support for two-way replication EMR Amazon EMR Studio makes it easier for data scientists to build and deploy code Redshift AWS announces AQUA for Amazon Redshift (preview) Amazon Redshift introduces data sharing (preview) Amazon Redshift launches RA3.xlplus nodes with managed storage Amazon Redshift announces Automatic Table Optimization Amazon Redshift now includes Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL databases as new data sources for federated querying (Preview) Amazon Redshift launches the ability to easily move clusters between AWS Availability Zones (AZs) DynamoDB You now can use Amazon DynamoDB with AWS Glue Elastic Views to combine and replicate data across multiple data stores by using SQL – available in limited preview You now can use a SQL-compatible query language to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB Glue Announcing Amazon Elasticsearch Service support for AWS Glue Elastic Views Announcing AWS Glue Elastic Views Preview AWS Glue now supports workload partitioning to further improve the reliability of Spark applications Other Amazon FSx for Lustre now enables you to grow storage on your file systems with the click of a button Introducing Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) AI & ML Sagemaker :allthethings: Amazon SageMaker Simplifies Training Deep Learning Models With Billions of Parameters | AWS News Blog Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Simplifies Access to Pre-built Models and Machine Learning Solutions | AWS News Blog New – Store, Discover, and Share Machine Learning Features with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store | AWS News Blog New – Profile Your Machine Learning Training Jobs With Amazon SageMaker Debugger | AWS News Blog New – Amazon SageMaker Pipelines Brings DevOps Capabilities to your Machine Learning Projects | AWS News Blog Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager Simplifies Operating Machine Learning Models on Edge Devices | AWS News Blog New – Managed Data Parallelism in Amazon SageMaker Simplifies Training on Large Datasets | AWS News Blog Introducing Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler, a Visual Interface to Prepare Data for Machine Learning | AWS News Blog Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Simplifies Access to Pre-built Models and Machine Learning Solutions | A

Because re:Invent is just in a couple of days, Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy take an earlier than usual look at the massive number of announcements in November. And to think, this episode was recorded on 20 November so everything announced after that will be discussed in the re:Invent episode. What's new Finally in Sydney Amazon Kendra now available in Asia-Pacific (Sydney) AWS region IP Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is now available in major AWS regions world wide Meet the newest AWS Heroes including the first DevTools Heroes! | AWS News Blog Serverless Amazon EventBridge introduces support for Event Replay Amazon CodeGuru Profiler simplifies profiling for AWS Lambda functions AWS Lambda now makes it easier to send logs to custom destinations AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ as an event source AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon API Gateway service integration AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon EKS service integration Containers Lightsail Containers: An Easy Way to Run your Containers in the Cloud | AWS News Blog Amazon ECS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in awsvpc networking mode Amazon ECS extensions for AWS CDK is now generally available The AWS CDK EKS Construct Library is Now Available as a Developer Preview and Adds Support for cdk8s AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS launches features focused on configuration and metrics AWS App Mesh introduces circuit breaker capabilities Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.2.0 Amazon VPC CNI plugin version 1.7 now default for Amazon EKS clusters EC2 & VPC AWS Network Firewall – New Managed Firewall Service in VPC | AWS News Blog Deployment models for AWS Network Firewall | Networking & Content Delivery Introducing AWS Gateway Load Balancer – Easy Deployment, Scalability, and High Availability for Partner Appliances | AWS News Blog Network Load Balancer now supports IPv6 AWS Client VPN now supports Client Connect Handler AWS Client VPN announces self service portal to download VPN profiles and desktop applications Introducing EC2 Instance rebalance recommendation for EC2 Spot Instances Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now supports AWS Wavelength Zones Pause and Resume Workloads on T3 and T3a Instances with Amazon EC2 Hibernation Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Braket Dev & Ops AWS CloudFormation change sets now support nested stacks AWS Service Catalog now supports StackSet instance operations AWS X-Ray now supports trace context propagation for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports Environment Variables AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter now integrates with Amazon CloudWatch for easier diagnosis and remediation of alarms AWS CodePipeline Source Action for AWS CodeCommit Supports git clone Now customize the idle session timeout value and stream session logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for Session Manager Security Encrypt your Amazon DynamoDB global tables by using your own encryption keys AWS KMS - based Encryption is Now Available in Amazon SageMaker Studio Announcing protection groups for AWS Shield Advanced AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized management of AWS Network Firewall Data Storage & Processing New – Export Amazon DynamoDB Table Data to Your Data Lake in Amazon S3, No Code Writing Required | AWS News Blog Introducing Amazon S3 Storage Lens – Organization-wide Visibility Into Object Storage | AWS News Blog Amazon MQ Update – New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service | AWS News Blog Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for MongoDB 4.0 and transactions Amazon Athena announces availability of engine version 2 Amazon Athena adds support for running SQL queries across relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources. Announcing AWS Glue DataBrew – A Visual Data Preparation Tool That Helps You Clean and Normalize Data Faster | AWS News Blog Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Database Mail Amazon RDS Data API supports tag-based authorization Amazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Cross-Custom-Availability-Zone Read Replicas Amazon Aurora Global Database Expands Manageability Capabilities AWS Launch Wizard now supports single-instance deployments of SQL Server on Windows and Linux Amazon Redshift announces Open Source JDBC and Python drivers Amazon Redshift announces support for TIME and TIMETZ data types Amazon Neptune now supports Event notifications Amazon Neptune now supports custom endpoints to access your workload Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports defining a custom name for your domain endpoint Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds support for hot reload of dictionary files Storage Day Welcome to AWS Storage Day 2020 | AWS News Blog Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Now Supports Access to File Systems Using Alternate DNS Names AWS Storage Gateway adds schedule-based network bandwidth throttling for Tape and Volume Gateway Amazon S3 Replication adds support for metrics and notifications Amazon S3 Replication adds support for replicating delete markers AWS Transfer Family now supports shared services VPC environments Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering adds Archive Access Tiers — further optimizes storage costs AWS Backup extends centralized backup management support to Amazon FSx AWS Snowball Edge now supports importing virtual machine images to your deployed Snow devices AWS Storage Gateway simplifies in-cloud processing by adding file-level upload notifications for File Gateway AWS Storage Gateway enhances security by introducing access-based enumeration for File Gateway Amazon ECS now supports the use of Amazon FSx for persistent, shared storage for Windows containers AMI Lifecycle Management now available with Data Lifecycle Manager AWS Snowball Edge now supports Windows operating systems AWS Storage Gateway increases local storage cache by 4x for Tape and Volume Gateway AWS announces 40% price reduction for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Cold HDD (sc1) volumes Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports storage quotas AI & ML New – GPU-Equipped EC2 P4 Instances for Machine Learning & HPC | AWS News Blog EFA Now Supports NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA Amazon Kendra adds Confluence Cloud connector Amazon Kendra adds user tokens for secure search AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule on sequence modeling and Transformers AWS DeepComposer adds new Transformers algorithm that allows developers to extend an input melody Announcing AWS DeepComposer’s next Chartbusters challenge, Keep Calm and Model On Amazon Polly launches a British English Newscaster speaking Style Amazon Polly launches a new Australian English neural text-to-speech voice Amazon Lex adds language support for French, Spanish, Italian and Canadian French Apply your business rules to Amazon Personalize recommendations on the fly Amazon Textract supports handwriting and five new languages Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports multi-GPU instances Other Cool Stuff In the Works – AWS Region in Hyderabad, India | AWS News Blog In the Works – New AWS Region in Zurich, Switzerland | AWS News Blog AWS Backup and AWS Organizations bring cross-account backup feature Amazon Chime SDK now supports public switched telephone network (PSTN) audio Savings Plans Alerts now available in AWS Cost Management Introducing new visualization features in AWS IoT SiteWise: Status Charts, Scatter Plot and Trend lines Announcing new features for AWS IoT SiteWise Amazon CloudWatch launches Metrics Explorer Amazon Connect launches API to configure user hierarchies programmatically Automated ABR (Adaptive Bit Rate) Configuration now available in AWS Elemental MediaConvert Amazon QuickSight launches new Chart Types, Table Improvements and more AWS IoT Device Management enhances Secure Tunneling with new multiplexing capability, supporting multiple connections to a single device over a secure tunnel The Nanos Amazon WorkDocs adds support for managing the color theme in-app on iOS AWS IQ launches new functionality to support firms Amazon Connect has just reduced its 44th telephony rate this year Sponsors Gold Sponsor Innablr Silver Sponsors AC3 CMD Solutions DoIT International  

In another slightly delayed episode Arjen, JM, and Guy talk about all the many things that were announced in October. But before that, they will first discuss exactly how badly Lex understands "a fair shake of the sauce bottle".   Talk to us in our Slack or on Twitter!   The News   Finally in Sydney Amazon Connect supports Amazon Lex bots using the Australian English dialect Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs, now available in 15 additional regions AWS IoT SiteWise is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS regions Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Snapshot Export to S3 available in additional regions Serverless Introducing AWS Lambda Extensions – In preview | AWS Compute Blog Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights (preview) New – Use AWS PrivateLink to Access AWS Lambda Over Private AWS Network | AWS News Blog Amazon EventBridge announces support for Dead Letter Queues AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon Athena service integration Amazon API Gateway now supports disabling the default REST API endpoint Containers Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.18 Amazon EKS now supports the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones Amazon EKS now supports configurable Kubernetes service IP address range Amazon ECS extensions for AWS Cloud Development Kit now available as a Developer Preview AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for Running Multi-Container Applications on AL2 based Docker Platform Fluent Bit supports Amazon S3 as a destination to route container logs AWS App Mesh supports cross account sharing of ACM Private Certificate Authority Introducing the AWS Load Balancer Controller AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.5 to let users deploy scheduled jobs and more EC2 & VPC AWS Nitro Enclaves – Isolated EC2 Environments to Process Confidential Data | AWS News Blog Announcing SSL/TLS certificates for Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves New – Application Load Balancer Support for End-to-End HTTP/2 and gRPC | AWS News Blog AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations with Amazon EBS metrics AWS Cloud Map simplifies service discovery with optional parameters AWS Global Accelerator launches port overrides AWS IoT SiteWise launches support for VPC private links AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports health notifications Dev & Ops AWS CloudFormation now supports increased limits on five service quotas AWS CloudFormation Guard – an open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance – is now generally available AWS CloudFormation Drift Detection now supports CloudFormation Registry resource types Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports prebuilt canary monitoring dashboard Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics launches Recorder to generate user flow scripts for canaries AWS and Grafana Labs launch AWS X-Ray data source plugin Now author AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks using Visual Studio Code AWS Systems Manager now supports free-text search of runbooks AWS Systems Manager now allows filtering automation executions by applications or environments Now use AWS Systems Manager to view vulnerability identifiers for missing patches on your Linux instances Port forwarding sessions created using Session Manager now support multiple simultaneous connections Now customize your Session Manager shell environment with configurable shell profiles AWS End of Support Migration Program for Windows Server now available as a self-serve solution for customers EC2 Image Builder now supports AMI distribution across AWS accounts Announcing general availability of waiters in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x Porting Assistant for .NET is now open source Amazon Corretto 8u272, 11.0.9, 15.0.1 quarterly updates are now available Security AWS Config adds 15 new sample conformance pack templates and introduces simplified setup experience for conformance packs AWS IAM Access Analyzer now supports archive rules for existing findings AWS AppSync adds support for AWS WAF AWS Shield now provides global and per-account event summaries to all AWS customers Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports two subscription filters per log group Amazon S3 Object Ownership is available to enable bucket owners to automatically assume ownership of objects uploaded to their buckets Protect Your AWS Compute Optimizer Recommendation Data with customer master keys (CMKs) Stored in AWS Key Management Service Manage access to AWS centrally for Ping Identity users with AWS Single Sign-On Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds native SAML Authentication for Kibana Amazon Inspector has expanded operating system support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Debian 10, and Windows Server 2019 Data Storage & Processing New – Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors | AWS News Blog Amazon ElastiCache now supports M6g and R6g Graviton2-based instances Easily restore an Amazon RDS for MySQL database from your MySQL 8.0 backup Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports concurrent major version upgrades of read replicas Amazon Aurora enables dynamic resizing for database storage space AWS Lake Formation now supports Active Directory and SAML providers for Amazon Athena AWS Lake Formation now supports cross account database sharing Now generally available – design and visualize Amazon Keyspaces data models more easily by using NoSQL Workbench You now can manage access to Amazon Keyspaces by using temporary security credentials for the Python, Go, and Node.js Cassandra drivers Amazon ElastiCache on Outposts is now available Amazon EMR now supports placing your EMR master nodes in distinct racks to reduce risk of simultaneous failure Amazon EMR integration with AWS Lake Formation is now generally available Amazon EMR now provides up to 35% lower cost and up to 15% improved performance for Spark workloads on Graviton2-based instances AWS Glue Streaming ETL jobs support schema detection and evolution AWS Glue supports reading from self-managed Apache Kafka AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Force Stop and a new Autoscaling status Kinesis Client Library now enables multi-stream processing Announcing cross-database queries for Amazon Redshift (preview) Amazon Redshift announces support for Lambda UDFs and enables tokenization New Amazon Neptune engine release now enforces a minimum version of TLS 1.2 and SSL client connections AWS Database Migration Service now supports Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a source AI & ML Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now Creates Machine Learning Models up to 40% Faster with up to 200% Higher Accuracy Now launch Amazon SageMaker Studio in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Amazon SageMaker Price Reductions – Up to 18% for ml.P3 and ml.P2 instances Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks now support custom images Amazon Rekognition adds support for six new content moderation categories Amazon Rekognition now detects Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as face covers, head covers, and hand covers on persons in images Amazon Transcribe announces support for AWS PrivateLink for Batch APIs Amazon Kendra now supports custom data sources Amazon Kendra adds Confluence Server connector Amazon Textract announces improvements to reduce average API processing times by up to 20% Other Cool Stuff AWS DeepRacer announces new Community Races updates Amazon WorkSpaces introduces sharing images across accounts AWS Batch now supports Custom Logging Configurations, Swap Space, and Shared Memory Amazon Connect supports Amazon Lex bots using the British English dialect Amazon Connect chat now provides automation and personalization capabilities with whisper flows CloudWatch Application Insights offers new, improved user interface CloudWatch Application Insights adds EBS volume and API Gateway metrics Announcing AWS Budgets price reduction Announcing AWS Budgets Actions Resource Access Manager Support is now available on AWS Outposts Announcing Amazon CloudFront Origin Shield Announcing AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry in Preview Introducing Amazon SNS FIFO – First-In-First-Out Pub/Sub Messaging | AWS News Blog Amazon SNS now supports selecting the origination number when sending SMS messages Amazon SES now offers list and subscription management capabilities Nano candidates Amazon WorkDocs now supports Dark Mode on iOS Amazon Corretto 8u272, 11.0.9, 15.0.1 quarterly updates are now available AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports new version of Chef Automate Sponsors   Gold Sponsor Innablr   Silver Sponsors AC3 CMD Solutions DoIT International  

A bit later than planned, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy are back to talk about the AWS news from September 2020. This episode contains Arjen talking about what's wrong with the SSO APIs, Jean-Manuel showing off his Quantum computing knowledge, and Guy giving a sauce bottle a fair shake? The News   Finally in ANZ Amazon Lex launches support for Australian English Urban Dictionary: Fair shake of the sauce bottle Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific regions Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors: In preview and now supported on more database versions Amazon CloudFront launches in two new countries - Mexico and New Zealand Serverless AWS Step Functions increases payload size to 256KB API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports Lambda and IAM authorization options AWS Step Functions adds support for AWS X-Ray AWS Lambda adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS authentication mTLS auth with AWS API Gateway | by Koustubha Kale | Contino Engineering Mutual TLS auth with AWS API Gateway Part 2 - check certificate revocation | by Koustubha Kale | Contino Engineering Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry announces support for JSON Schema Containers Announcing the General Availability of Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers EKS Now Supports Creation and Management of Fargate Profiles Using AWS CloudFormation Amazon EKS now supports assigning EC2 security groups to Kubernetes pods Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics from Container environments AWS and Docker extend collaboration to launch new features in Docker Desktop Docker Open Sources Compose for Amazon ECS and Microsoft ACI - Docker Blog Amazon ECS is now available in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones EC2 & VPC New EC2 T4g Instances – Burstable Performance Powered by AWS Graviton2 – Try Them for Free | AWS News Blog Amazon EC2/Spot Fleet now support modifying instance types and weights on the run Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Textract Amazon CodeGuru Profiler now supports AWS PrivateLink Amazon Lightsail now offers new OS blueprints Application Load Balancers now support AWS Outposts AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing of an Application Load Balancer among Elastic Beanstalk environments Amazon CloudWatch Agent is now Open Source and included with Amazon Linux 2 Dev & Ops AWS Systems Manager now supports all current versions of Ubuntu AWS X-Ray launches Auto-Instrumentation Agent for Java AWS X-Ray launches anomaly detection-based actionable insights in preview Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics strengthens end-to-end canary run debugging with X-Ray traces Systems Manager now supports on-demand patching with just two clicks Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports enhanced monitoring for Broken Link and GUI Workflow Blueprints Amazon CloudFront announces support for Brotli compression AWS Systems Manager Explorer now supports grouping and customization of operational data sources Announcing event logging and self-upgrade capabilities in SSM Agent, with new version 3.0 Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 15 Security AWS Single Sign-On adds account assignment APIs and AWS CloudFormation support to automate multi-account access management Fixing AWS SSO's CloudFormation | ig.nore.me GitHub - ArjenSchwarz/awstools: A little application to help with more complex AWS functions cloudformation-macros/SSOFixer at master · ArjenSchwarz/cloudformation-macros · GitHub Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs Amazon CloudFront announces real-time logs Amazon CloudFront announces support for TLSv1.3 for viewer connections Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards now supports sharing AWS Backup Will Automatically Copy Tags from Nested EBS Volumes to EC2 Recovery Points Enforce encryption for Amazon Elastic File System resources using AWS IAM Amazon Detective introduces IAM Role Session Analysis Data Lifecycle Manager now supports multiple schedules within in a single lifecycle policy AWS Backup supports application-consistent backups of Microsoft workloads on EC2 Introducing AWS Cost Anomaly Detection (Preview) Storage & Databases Announcing Data API for Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift now supports 100K tables in a single cluster Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Native Backup/Restore on DB Instances with Read Replicas Amazon Aurora Increases Maximum Storage Size to 128TB Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 Instances Amazon ElastiCache is now available in the AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles (LA) Now it's even easier to connect JetBrains IDEs to Amazon RDS or Redshift Databases Amazon EFS integrates with AWS Systems Manager to simplify management of Amazon EFS clients AI & ML Amazon Textract supports customer S3 buckets Other Cool Stuff AWS announces a 86%+ price reduction for AWS IoT Events Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Microsoft Office Professional bundle for Bring Your Own Windows License WorkSpaces Amazon WorkSpaces introduces support for cross-Region redirection Amazon Connect launches contact flow management APIs Amazon Connect launches APIs that list prompts within your instance Amazon Connect launches API to configure routing profiles programmatically AWS CloudFormation now supports StackSets Resource Type in the CloudFormation Registry Introducing AWS Perspective Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zones in Atlanta, New York City, and Washington DC Queuing purchases of Savings Plans Amazon Braket now offers D-Wave’s Advantage quantum system for quantum annealing The D-Wave 2000Q (PDF) The Nano Candidates Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 Instances (Jean-Manuel) AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas (Guy) AWS IQ now provides short URLs for expert profiles (Arjen)   Sponsors   Gold Sponsor Innablr   Silver Sponsors AC3 CMD Solutions DoIT International  

Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy once again take a close look at the new releases from the past month. And while they try to compare everything to EFS for Lambda, this month includes the introduction of a new award: The Nano The News Finally in Sydney Announcing the newest AWS Heroes – August 2020 | AWS News Blog Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regions Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo) Regions Serverless Lambda AWS Lambda now provides IAM condition keys for VPC settings AWS Lambda now supports Go on Amazon Linux 2 AWS Lambda now supports Java 8 (Corretto) AWS Lambda now supports custom runtimes on Amazon Linux 2 AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka as an event source AWS AppSync releases Direct Lambda Resolvers for GraphQL APIs API Gateway Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports wildcard custom domain names API Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS services Amazon API Gateway now supports enhanced observability via access logs Step Functions AWS Step Functions adds support for Amazon SageMaker Processing AWS Step Functions adds support for string manipulation, new comparison operators, and improved output processing Amplify Announcing Swift Combine support in Amplify iOS Amplify Flutter now available as Developer Preview Containers Fargate AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS now included in Compute Savings Plans Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now supports Amazon EFS file systems ECS Amazon Elastic Container Service launches more network metrics for containers using the EC2 launch type AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.3 focused on operations and configuration Amazon ECS now launches the Amazon ECS Optimized Inferentia AMI EKS Amazon EKS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer Amazon EKS managed node groups now support EC2 launch templates and custom AMIs Amazon EKS support for Arm-based instances powered by AWS Graviton is now generally available Announcing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes Preview Amazon EKS now supports EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2 Other AWS App Mesh introduces new default mesh configuration EC2 & VPC Amazon S3 Access Points now support the COPY API Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5ad instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors AWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports IPv6 Traffic AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports additional encryption, integrity and key exchange algorithms AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports Internet Key Exchange (IKE) initiation AWS Transit Gateway customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify IP management Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service Now Supports Additional Fields for Improved Automation and Operability Dev & Ops CodeGuru Reviewer now has Full Repository Analysis Support EC2 Image Builder components can now be developed locally AWS CodeDeploy now supports deployments to VPC endpoints Now manage a popular third party agent from AWS Systems Manager Distributor AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account summary of AWS Support cases AWS Cloud9 releases enhanced VPC support Security New – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets | AWS News Blog Manage access to AWS centrally for OneLogin users with AWS Single Sign-On AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports Private CA sharing AWS Firewall Manager now supports security groups on Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers Storage and Databases New EBS Volume Type (io2) – 100x Higher Durability and 10x More IOPS/GiB | AWS News Blog Announcing Preview for Amazon RDS M6g and R6g Instance Types, Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors AWS Glue version 2.0 featuring 10x faster job start times and 1-minute minimum billing duration AWS Glue now provides the ability to stop and restart your Glue workflows Amazon Neptune announces graph visualization in Neptune Workbench Amazon FSx for Lustre announces high-performance HDD-based shared storage for compute workloads Amazon ElastiCache announces support for resource-level permission policies Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Now Supports Up To 500 Nodes Per Cluster AWS Database Migration Service now supports MongoDB 4.0 as a source Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports SQL Server Major Version 2019 AI & ML AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive CNN model Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy Amazon Augmented AI Launches Delete Human Task UI Capability Other Cool Stuff Quantum computing is now available on AWS through Amazon Braket AWS IoT Device Management increases the limit for concurrent Active Jobs to 1,000 per AWS account per region AWS IoT Core expands Custom Authentication options Announcing the General Availability of AWS Wavelength in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area Introducing Second Local Zone in Los Angeles, CA Amazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone calls Amazon Connect now returns agents to their previous status after finishing an outbound call Amazon Connect adds cut, copy, and paste to the contact flow designer AWS RoboMaker WorldForge simplifies creating simulation worlds for robotics Amazon SES now enables customers to bulk import and bulk delete email addresses from the account-level suppression list Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for playback authorization Amazon Connect allows contact-centers to auto-resolve to the best voice Amazon SNS launches client library supporting message payloads of up to 2 GB The Nano Candidates Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability Amazon Connect adds support for early media on 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July was a busy month with many (small) releases, and even an announcement about re:Invent! So it's up to Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy to try to make sense of it all. The News Finally in Sydney AWS IoT Analytics is now available in the Sydney AWS Region AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions AWS Secrets Manager has been IRAP assessed and accepted for PROTECTED level Serverless Amazon RDS Proxy – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog Announcing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI now generally available for production use Amplify CLI adds support for Lambda layers to easily share code  assets across Lambda functions Amazon Athena adds support for Partition Projection Containers AWS App2Container – A New Containerizing Tool for Java and .NET Applications | AWS News Blog Amazon ECS announces AWS Copilot, a new CLI to deploy and operate containers in AWS Docker and AWS collaborate to help deploy applications to Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.17 AWS App Mesh launches ingress support with virtual gateways Introducing Ingress support in AWS App Mesh | Containers (detailed blogpost) Amazon EFS CSI Driver is now generally available Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas Fluent bit container logs to Elastcsearch ECR now supports encryption of images using AWS KMS keys EC2 & VPC Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available Introducing EC2 Launch v2 to simplify customizing Windows instances AWS Transit Gateway now supports more granular CloudWatch Metrics for improved network monitoring EC2 Image Builder can now produce and distribute encrypted AMIs EC2 Image Builder can now stream logs to CloudWatch Announcing Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations AWS Global Accelerator launches One-Click Acceleration for Application Load Balancers Amazon VPC Resources Now Support Tag on Create New – Amazon EC2 Instances based on AWS Graviton2 with local NVMe-based SSD storage | AWS News Blog Amazon Lightsail now offers cPanel  WHM instance blueprint AWS Cloud Map simplifies Amazon EC2 instance registration Dev & Ops Find Your Most Expensive Lines of Code – Amazon CodeGuru Is Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog Announcing the Porting Assistant for .NET | AWS News Blog AWS CodeDeploy now enables automated installation and scheduled updates of the CodeDeploy Agent Announcing CDK Pipelines Preview, continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications CDK Pipelines: Continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications | AWS Developer Blog (detailed blogpost) CDK for Terraform: Enabling Python & TypeScript Support AWS CodeBuild now supports accessing Build Environments with AWS Session Manager AWS CodeBuild supports code coverage reporting AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel and coordinated executions of a build project Amazon S3 features now available in the AWS Toolkits for Visual Studio Code Security Amazon Fraud Detector is now Generally Available | AWS News Blog Easily manage your content policies for AI services with AWS Organizations AWS Firewall Manager launches managed rules to audit VPC security groups AWS WAF Security Automations now supports WAFv2 API AWS Config Launches 28 Additional Managed rules   AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to attach resource-based policies to secrets from the AWS Secrets Manager console and uses Zelkova to validate these policies Identify, arrange, and manage secrets easily using enhanced search in AWS Secrets Manager Amazon CloudFront announces new TLS1.2 security policy for viewer connections Amazon Detective enhances VPC flow visibility Now gain longer access to your AWS resources when switching roles in the AWS Management Console Amazon MQ Adds Support for LDAP Authentication And Authorization AWS Security Hub launches new automated security controls AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS WAF logs Storage & Databases Amazon Elastic File System increases file system minimum throughput Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports T3 medium instances AWS Storage Gateway simplifies cache management for File Gateway AWS Storage Gateway increases local cache storage by 4x for File Gateway Amazon RDS Application Programming Interface supports AWS PrivateLink Amazon Keyspaces now enables you to back up your table data continuously by using point-in-time-recovery (PITR) Create Snapshots From Any Block Storage Using EBS Direct APIs | AWS News Blog Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for cross-region snapshot copy Announcing automatic backups for Amazon Elastic File System New Amazon Elastic File System console simplifies file system creation and management Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots | AWS News Blog Amazon Elastic File System increases per-client throughput by 100% Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Learning to Rank to improve search relevancy ranking AWS DataSync adds support for on-premises object storage | AWS News Blog HTTP compression support now available in Amazon Elasticsearch Service Amazon RDS for SQL Server lowers the cost for High Availability DB Instances AWS Database Migration Service now supports enhanced premigration assessments Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to New Relic, Datadog, HTTP endpoints, and MongoDB Cloud AI & ML AWS DeepRacer Evo and Sensor Kit now available for purchase Amazon Comprehend Medical adds relationship extraction to medical condition Amazon Personalize adds improved handling of missing metadata Amazon EMR now supports encrypting log files using Customer-managed CMKs in AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 10X more items Amazon EMR now supports Managed Scaling – automatically resizing clusters to lower cost New – Label Videos with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth | AWS News Blog Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Kendra AWS RoboMaker releases rosbag upload cloud extension for Robot Operating System (ROS)  Amazon Comprehend launches real time Custom Entity Recognition Amazon Forecast now supports resource tagging Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 G4 Instances which provides up to 4.5X faster and 5.4X cheaper XGBoost Training Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI add support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication of private workers Amazon Translate now supports Office documents | AWS News Blog Other cool stuff New – Create Amazon RDS DB Instances on AWS Outposts | AWS News Blog Announcing the New AWS Community Builders Program! | AWS News Blog AWS IoT SiteWise – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites | AWS News Blog Contact Lens for Amazon Connect is now generally available Recording of the Connect/Contact Lens talk by Rian Brooks-Kane at the User Group (starts around 50 minutes) AWS IoT Core now supports multiple shadows for a single IoT device Amazon Connect allows you to continue engaging with your customer after an agent hangs-up Amazon Chime SDK supports audio and video calling from mobile browsers AWS Marketplace now offers integrated third-party software solutions for AWS Control Tower Updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the AWS Well-Architected Tool Amazon Connect adds call recording APIs Introducing AWS Purchase Order Management (Preview)   Sponsors Gold Sponsor Innablr Silver Sponsors AC3 CMD Solutions DoIT International